Søren Nørby

When Danish corvette Olfert Fischer joined the UN operation against Iraq in 1990-1991, it was seen as the most significant sign of the changing security situation which Denmark and the Navy were facing following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Much has been much written about Olfert Fischer and its participation in the first Gulf War, causing the following and in many ways larger operation - the Navy's participation in the UN embargo against Serbia and Montenegro from 1993 to 1996 - to slip into the background. This is not fair as the Navy’s participation in that conflict was an important step on the road from territorial defense of the Baltic Approaches to the contemporary international - global - profile of the Danish Navy.To date, historians have been focusing on the land war in the former Yugoslavia and not much has been written about the maritime part of the UN involvement. The operation was, however, quite interesting as it is portrayed as a modern example of Combined and Joint Operations in the History of Warfare, and this paper will attempted to describe it in details.