"4,000 soldiers" . "Chetniks" . . "3,000\u20135,500 soldiers" . . . . . . . . . "Operation Alfa"@en . "300 soldiers" . . . . . "Partisan retreat" . "Yugoslav Partisans" . "Operation Alfa (Italian: Operazione Alfa; Serbo-Croatian: Operacija Alfa, \u041E\u043F\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0458\u0430 \u0410\u043B\u0444\u0430) was an offensive carried out in early October 1942 by Italian, Croatian and Chetnik forces against the Yugoslav Partisans in the Prozor region, then a part of the Croatian puppet state (today in Bosnia and Herzegovina).The operation was arranged between Mario Roatta, commander of the Italian Second Army, and Chetnik commander Ilija Trifunovi\u0107-Bir\u010Danin with approval from Dra\u017Ea Mihailovi\u0107."@en . .