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Capital: Zagreb
Area: 56,594 sq km
Comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia
Population (July 2011 estimate): 4,483,804
Official language: Croatian
State Partner: Minnesota
International Organizations and Agreements: United Nations, NATO, Adriatic Charter, World Trade Organization, Central Europe Free Trade Organization

Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Croatia are very strong, and the U.S. welcomes Croatia’s desire to play a positive and stabilizing role in the region. The United States has given more than $27 million since 1998 in humanitarian demining assistance. Croatia hopes to remove an estimated 90,000 remaining mines by 2019.

Croatia contributes troops to a number of UN operations, including those in the Golan Heights, Cyprus, Sudan, Liberia, Lebanon, Western Sahara, and Kashmir and to support NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Department of Defense has a robust military-to-military relationship with Croatia and provides military assistance in the form of training, equipment, equipment loans, and education in U.S. military schools. Croatia’s military routinely participates in exercises Immediate Response, Adriatic Sword, Combined Endeavor, Jackal Stone and Logistics Exercise. There are Acquisition and Cross-Servicing, Status of Forces, and training area agreements in place with Croatia though there are no permanent U.S. military bases there.

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  • July 25, 2012

    Croatian and US Soldiers improve Medical Partnership

    Four Soldiers from the 557th Area Support Medical Company, 421st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, from Baumholder, Germany traveled to the Croatian Army Medical Training Center, in Pozega, Croatia in June 2012 to build relationships for future collaborative training.
  • July 20, 2012

    Europe’s Chaplains complete first multinational tactical course

    On July 12, the final day of the first tactical religious support course offered by the Joint Multinational Training Command, unit ministry teams comprised of U.S. Army and NATO chaplains and chaplain assistants participated in a live-fire exercise to address that question.
  • June 9, 2012

    Multinational training exercise Immediate Response closes out in Croatia

    More than 700 Croatian, U.S. and multinational forces from six other countries concluded two weeks of intensive training at a closing ceremony here June 9.
  • June 1, 2012

    Multi-national soldiers train together at Immediate Response 2012

    Heavily forested terrain, steep hills and hot weather haven’t slowed down Soldiers with U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment and their multinational partners during the Situational Training Exercise phase of Immediate Response 2012 here for the past few days.
  • May 26, 2012

    Immediate Response 12 highlights multinational cooperation

    Immediate Response 12 (IR12), the multinational military exercise between U.S. Army Europe, U.S. Air Force, the Croatian Land Forces and partner militaries from six other Balkan nations, started today with an opening ceremony in Slunj, Croatia.
  • May 7, 2012

    Phoenix Express 2012 Begins in Souda Bay

    Phoenix Express 2012 (PE12), a multi-national exercise between Southern European, North African and U.S. Naval forces, officially kicked off at the NATO Maritime Interdiction Operation Training Center (NMIOTC) in Souda Bay, May 7.
  • April 24, 2012

    11 nations share lessons learned at medical symposium

    Representatives of the military medical community from 11 Partnership for Peace and NATO countries met to discuss common problems and solutions within the career field here April 18 - 20.
  • April 5, 2012

    Croatian Children Visit Swift

    Children living at the Maestral orphanage received a guided tour aboard the High Speed Vessel Swift (HSV 2) at Lora Naval Base Split, Croatia, April 5.
  • April 4, 2012

    Swift Hosts Croatian and U.S. Officials

    A senior Croatian defense official was joined by an American congressional delegation for a visit to the high-speed vessel Swift (HSV 2) at Lora Naval Base in Split, Croatia, April 4.
  • November 20, 2011

    This Week in EUCOM History: November 19-25, 1995

    The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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  • March 13, 2012

    First-Ever Regional Cyber Endeavor Seminar Held in Montenegro

    I spent last week in the warm and hospitable city of Podgorica, Montenegro, with a EUCOM team executing the first-ever regional Cyber Endeavor event.
  • June 22, 2011

    Taking Care of the Basics: Humanitarian Civic Assistance in Croatia

    The town of Slunj, Croatia, was not far away and Diana and I were traveling there by car to participate in the Croatian President Ivo Josipovic’s visit to Slunj Primary School. For months prior, Diana had worked closely with the US and Croatian military representatives, as well as with the civilian authorities in the town of Slunj, to ensure the availability of the necessary construction materials for a renovation project at the Slunj Primary School. Today, she too could celebrate. The joint Croatian-US military exercise Immediate Response 2011 had just finished and President Josipovic was visiting the Croatian military base where the exercise had taken place. He was there to thank the Croatian and US military members who had participated in the exercise and to view several joint military construction projects that had taken place concurrently with the exercise.
  • March 29, 2011

    My Dream Come True

    Thank you for all the good you have done for the current, and all subsequent generations who will live and enjoy this dorm, thank you so much ... When I lived here it was both a paradise, and a calvary for me, but, I think, life here made me what I am now…..a young, but mature person ready for life ahead of me.
  • February 16, 2011

    Cyber Defense is a Team Sport

    The theme of this conference was “Empowering a Cyber Defense Workforce" and included over one hundred participants with 40 partner cyber defenders from 18 countries, NATO, and other international organizations. The cheer squad came from USEUCOM's components, DoD agencies and industry.
  • October 1, 2010

    A Baltic Bridge to the Adriatic

    In human affairs, successful cooperation in one area often builds bridges to successful cooperation on other endeavors. In the case of Croatia and Latvia, successful security cooperation has recently led to cooperation on the protection of the natural and economic resources on the Dalmatian Coast.
  • September 24, 2010

    EUCOM, USACE help with Sava River flood mapping

    If you live near a river in Eastern Europe, you probably spent a horrific summer evacuating or preparing to evacuate due to floods. So, what better way to reach out to our partners than developing a plan to prevent and prepare for flooding, while promoting international cooperation?
  • April 16, 2010

    LOGEX 10 Workshops: Two Down … Three to Go

    As promised in February, welcome to another edition of LOGEX 10. This month’s events find me at the National Support Element (NSE) & Logistics Functional Area Services (LOGFAS) workshop in the Czech Republic, which is the second in a series of five workshops designed for each participating nation in this year’s exercise. Warrant Officer Martin Turner (RAF), Allied Command Transformation, provides instruction on LOGFAS.
  • October 26, 2009

    So Long But Not Goodbye - Logistics Exercise 2009

    That’s a wrap as they say in Hollywood, or so I’ve heard.  Eighteen months of planning, training, and effort finished with the after action review. 
  • October 21, 2009

    Is European Command still relevant?

    I thought I'd throw this topic out for some conversation and I'd like to see what others think:
  • October 15, 2009

    Arriving in Macedonia - LOGEX 09

    This is my first blog for Logistics Exercise 2009.  Hope you enjoy it!  Thanks for tracking!

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  • June 27, 2012

    Immediate Response

    For 20 years, nations in southeastern Europe have been working to heal the wounds from the fall of Yugoslavia. SSgt John Archiquette takes us to Croatia, where the Immediate Response exercise is bringing these partners together with their Army counterparts to build friendship and trust as well as hone their combat skills.
  • June 8, 2012

    Immediate Response 2012: A look at week one

    Footage taken during the first week of Immediate Response 2012 (IR12) training event held in Slunj, Croatia from May 26 thru June 10, 2012. IR12 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe's 2nd Cavalry Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise.
  • September 23, 2009

    Exercise Jackal Stone 2009

    CROATIA -- The scenario: a terrorist organization abducts two international diplomats as they're vacationing in Croatia. The terrorists then demand a 1 million Euro ransom to get the diplomats back unharmed. This may just be a training exercise, but as SSG James Allen shows us, soldiers have to be ready for any and every type of situation.