Veljko Kadijević

Veljko Kadijević (21 November 1925 – 2 November 2014) was a general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). He was the Minister of Defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 until his resignation in 1992, which made him the "de facto" commander of the JNA during the Ten-Day War in Slovenia and the initial stages of the Croatian War of Independence.