Summary/Abstract: The partisan army emerged as a military force of the Communist Party, after the four years of the war, when the revolutionary change of government occurred through the multiply civil war under the occupation. This army was in May 1945 a member of the wining Ally coalition. During 1945. and 1946. it changed its character to a peace time army of a certain ideological and technical profile. Heterogeneous in many regards, it was becoming every day more like an army of an organized state. Furthermore, it was in the first post war years much more organized and stable than a state itself. In may regions of the country, army (inner army, KNOJ, but regulary units as well)still fought against defeated enemies. Because such circumstances, and because political adversaries of the regime within the army itself, the repressive and very developed apparatus for a domestic purposes made after the Soviet model, has been associated with the military formation. The counterespionage has been formed in 1946. as a special service. Not only the first post war year but the whole decade were marked with the instability of a settlement, frequent transfers, life in inappropriate objects, and all kinds of shortages. In this period first peacetime dispositions have been made, as well as several demobilizations. It is significant that the demobiliyation of November 1945. came immediately after the success of the regime at the elections of 1945. and the fall of the monarchy. By these demobilizations army has beeb reduced to 400 000, with the tendency of the further reduction in following years. The legal role of the Army within the state has been defined, as well as regulation of a military service, rights and duties of the military personnel, and many decisions important for a status of a military were made.
