OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES
                                
                       WASHINGTON,  D. C.
                                
                                
                  JUGOSLAVIA AND THE PARTISANS
                                
                    I. MILITARY INFORMATION
                                
          A. DESCRIPTION OF CURRENT PARTISAN POSITION
               WITH RESPECT TO MILITARY EQUIPMENT
                                
 
        Partisan military equipment at the moment consists of rifles, pistols, sub-machine guns, hand
grenades, and that is all. The odds and ends of heavier equipment that they have captured from
the enemy scarcely figure in their combat operations, and there is good reason to doubt that they
ever will. This equipment limitation  explains and necessitates the type of warfare they wage. In
other circumstances and with more equipment, they might still be guerrillas out of choice, for
tactical or other reasons. In the present circumstances, they can't be anything but guerrillas.
 
           B. ESTIMATES OF FUTURE PARTISAN CAPACITIES
              IN TERMS OF MANPOWER, MATERIAL, ETC.
                                
       There are everywhere indications that the Partisans  have dug deep into the barrel of their
total resources in the so-called liberated areas. Their armies, for instance, contain considerable
numbers of women. They also contain far from negligible numbers of children between the ages of
l4 and 17. Almost all of these women and children have been through