Raguz told Hina over the phone that Zagreb began preparing the operation in July 1995 and that Washington agreed to support it only after realising that the Croatian leadership did not intended to give up on it and anticipating that Storm's success would break the Serb lines around Bosnia's Bihac region and make a peace process in Bosnia possible.
Also speaking at the launch were former US Ambassador Herbert Okun and New York Newsday editor and Pulitzer prize winner Roy Gutman.
The first Western journalist reporting on crimes committed during the wars in Croatia and Bosnia, Gutman underlined that Operation Storm helped end the war in Bosnia. He also said that the Hague war crimes tribunal's indictment against the operation's commander, Ante Gotovina, was very weak.
Also present at the launch was the Croatian permanent representative to the United Nations, Mirjana Mladineo.
The author of the book written in both English and Croatian was during the 1990s engaged in Croatian and Bosnian missions to the UN. Between 1998 and 2000 he was the Bosnian ambassador to the European Union and NATO in Brussels.