December 23rd marks the 35th anniversary of an independence referendum in Slovenia, then a Yugoslav republic. In all, 88.5% of registered voters—95.7% of participants—said “da” to secession from the multi-ethnic socialist federation. The plebiscite prompted Ljubljana’s formal declaration of independence, and ensuing Ten-Day War between Slovenian territorial defense forces and...

On March 24th, this journalist exposed how London was at the forefront of efforts to launch a ground invasion of Yugoslavia, during NATO’s illegal March-May 1999 bombing campaign. Mercifully, this noxious project never came to pass, but declassified files show there was a further, secret component to Britain’s war effort...