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The seven anti-partisan offensives is the name given by the Yugoslav Partisans to major Axis military operations on the territory of former Yugoslavia during World War II, undertaken against the Yugoslav partisan resistance movement. In order, they were:
- First enemy offensive in western Serbia against the Republic of Užice, from September to November 1941.
- Second enemy offensive took place in eastern Bosnia in January 1942, with the partisan troops forced to retreat over mount Igman next to Sarajevo.
- Third enemy offensive, an offensive against partisan forces in eastern Bosnia, Montenegro, Sandžak and Hercegovina in spring 1942. Mistakenly identified by some sources as the Battle of Kozara in summer 1942.
- Fourth enemy offensive, also known as Fall Weiss, spanning the area between western Bosnia and northern Hercegovina and culminating in the partisan retreat over the Neretva river, from January to April 1943.
- Fifth enemy offensive, also known as the Sutjeska offensive or Operation Schwartz, a complete encirclement of partisan forces in southeastern Bosnia and northern Montenegro in May and June 1943.
- Sixth enemy offensive, a series of operations undertaken by the Wehrmacht and the Ustaše after the surrender of Italy in an attempt to secure the Adriatic coast in autumn 1943 and winter 1944.
- Seventh enemy offensive, the final attempt to against the core of the resistance movement in western Bosnia in spring 1944, including Operation Rösselsprung, an unsuccessful German airdrop on the town of Drvar directed against Tito personally, on 25 May 1944.
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