Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, abbreviated OSBiH or AFBiH, are the official military force of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They were officially unified in 2005 from two founding armies, the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Army of Republika Srpska of the Bosnian Serbs, whose roots go back to the armies of the Bosnian War, including the Croat Defence Council. The force has a land component and an air component, and three regiments are each drawn from one of the country's three ethnic groups, the Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs. The Ministry of Defence, founded in 2004, is in charge of the force. The unification came after international pressure on the governance of the separate armies, and by 2004 the two armies had reduced to about 12,000 regulars and 240,000 reserves without yet integrating.