Did the nato air campaign lead to an intensification of serb atrocities in. This military campaign known as operation allied force was nato s second combat operation in the balkans in just four years. In early 1998, violence erupted within kosovo between yugoslavian serb forces and the kosovo liberation army kla. He outlines the key highlights of the air war and examines the various factors that interacted to.
Those bombers constituted a major part of the overall strike force. This book offers a thorough appraisal of operation allied force, natos 78day air war to compel the president of yugoslavia, slobodan milosevic, to end his campaign of ethnic cleansing in kosovo. A strategic and operational assessment santa monica, ca. To begin with, operation allied force was the first air war in which all three currently deployed u. Natos humanitarian war aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaa over kosovo the 11week bombing campaign conducted by nato in spring 1999 against the federal republic of yugoslavia fry has many claims to uniqueness. On march 24, 1999 nato began air strikes on the federal republic of yugoslavia. Operation allied force, or the air war over serbia, resulted in victory without any american or nato boots on the ground. Hard european lesson from the kosovo air campaign core. An f15e strike eagle of the 494th expeditionary fighter squadron, deployed to aviano air base, italy, streaks into the sky, in support of nato operations. Natos humanitarian war over kosovo columbia university. The author sheds light both on the operations strengths and on its most salient weaknesses.
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