The
Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, commonly known as the
Chetniks (, Четници, ; ), was a World War II movement in
Yugoslavia led by
Draža Mihailović, an anti-
Axis movement in their long-range goals and engaged in marginal resistance activities for limited periods. They also engaged in tactical or selective
collaboration with the occupying forces for almost all of the war. The Mihailović Chetniks were not a homogeneous movement. The Chetnik movement adopted a policy of collaboration with regard to the Axis, and engaged in cooperation to one degree or another by establishing
modus vivendi or operating as "legalised" auxiliary forces under Axis control. Over a period of time, and in different parts of the country, the Chetnik movement was progressively drawn into collaboration agreements: first with the
Nedić forces in the
Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia, then with the Italians in occupied
Dalmatia and
Montenegro, with some of the
Ustaše forces in northern
Bosnia, and after the Italian capitulation also with the
Germans directly.