Missions
Slovakia has 198 military personnel deployed worldwide for United Nations-led peace support operations (PSOs). Slovakia committed to increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan to around 500 men by the end of 2010. Slovak troops are deployed in Southern Afghanistan. Slovakia has markedly increased its commitment to KFOR and SFOR in Bosnia in 2002. Soon Slovak troops will withdraw from Kosovo because the Slovak Armed Forces set its priority to focus mainly on an Afghanistan NATO led mission - only 20 men will stay for intelligence reasons in Kosovo. Since the independence of Slovakia in 1993, there have been 53 uniformed personnel deaths in the line of service to the United Nations (as of 2008).
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“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)