Territorial Defence Force , TDF (Abkürzung)

Like other republics, they had their own Territorial Defence Force, a kind of decentralised, partisan-style popular militia set up in 1968 throughout Yugoslavia.

The Territorial Defence Force consists of ordinary citizens of all occupations who undertake training in the basics of modern warfare.

In 1968 a reserve volunteer force, the Teritorialna Obramba (Territorial Defence Force), was established to defend local key locations in time of crisis.

On 28 June 1991 a Yugoslav Air Force Gazelle defected to Slovenia, providing the first helicopter for the Territorial Defence Force.

Hasan Efendić (First commander of the Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina)

In September, the Bosnian Croats established the Territorial Defence Force (Teritorijalna obrana - TO) headquarters which set up armed volunteer units.

The socialist doctrine of "General People's Defence", in which each republic maintained a Territorial Defence Force (TO), was to be replaced by a centrally-directed system of defence.

The Patriotic League was the first paramilitary unit of Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (TORBIH).

This Corps was formed to unite the rest of the Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina and some Bosnian Special Forces and Civilian Forces.

After Enver quit the JNA, he joined the Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina (TO RBIH) of Bosnia.

The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija - JNA) confiscated Croatia's Territorial Defence Force's (Teritorijalna obrana - TO) weapons to minimize resistance.

Although fighting in Slovenia continued in early July, it was quickly over after a successful campaign of resistance by the well-organized Slovenian Territorial Defence Force against the Yugoslav National Army (JNA).

The defending force of the Croatian Serb Territorial Defence Force supported by the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija - JNA) artillery were caught unprepared and offered light resistance.

On April 11, the Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence Force captured two nearby hydroelectric power plants on the Neretva River and the JNA pushed the HV/HVO force from Stolac.

On 27 June, armed conflict broke out as the JNA and the Territorial Defence Force of Slovenia (TDS) began fighting over control of Slovenia's border posts, in what became the Ten-Day War.

The modern Slovenian Air Force was first formed in mid 1991, under the title Slovenian Territorial Defence Force - Air Force Unit, with a small of number of UTVA-75 aircraft left behind by the retreating Yugoslav Armed Forces.

The Territorial Defence Force of the Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina (Teritorijalna odbrana Bosne i Hercegovine (TO BiH)) were the first official armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the beginning of the Bosnian War.

UNPROFOR was tasked with creating buffer zones between the belligerents, disarming the Croatian Serb Territorial Defence Force troops, overseeing the JNA and HV withdrawal from the UNPAs, and the return of refugees to those areas.

After talks between Mesic and members of the Slovenian leadership on July 2, however, Slovenia agreed to release prisoners, and to allow the JNA federal troops (effectively besieged by the Slovenian Territorial Defence Force) to return to barracks with all their arms and equipment.