Republika Srpska (1992–95) the Serb people in Bosnia and Herzegovina: At the same session, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted to create the Army of the Republika Srpska ("VRS") ("Vojska Republike Srpske"), and appointed Ratko Mladić, the commander of the Second Military District of the Yugoslav federal army, as commander of the VRS Main Staff. At the end of May 1992, after the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Second Military District was essentially transformed into the Main Staff of the VRS. The new army immediately set out to achieve by military means the six "strategic objectives" of the Serbian people
Croat entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Herzegovina: Croat entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina The Croat entity (), or Croat federal unit ("Hrvatska federalna jedinica"), also informally known as the "Third entity" ("Treći entitet"), is a proposed administrative unit of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the country is divided into two entities, the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-majority Federation, Croats, as one of the three equal constitutive nations, have periodically proposed creating a symmetrical Croat-majority territorial unit as a way to ensure their equality, prevent gerrymandering, simplify the political gridlock and dismantle overburdening administration. During the Bosnian War (1992–95), Bosnian Croats founded their own sub-national entity,