| Summary: | Since the early 1860s many Croat politicians, both prominent (from Ante
Starčević and Ante Pavelić to Franjo Tudjman) and little known, have been
openly expressing the ambition to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia at
a favourable moment and under certain conditions, invoking Croatian state and
historical right in support of their pretensions. These pretensions, born out
of the belief that the unfortunately shaped territory of Croatia, Slavonia
and Dalmatia lacks the necessary strategic depth, have led to a fully-fledged
strategy for creating an ethnically and religiously pure Greater Croatia and
to constant conflict with the Serb side which also lays claims, predominantly
ethnic, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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