The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in
American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed
forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply
damaged the former Yugoslavia. Serbia trained its military on
Kosovo because of an ongoing armed struggle by ethnic Albanians to
wrest independence from Serbia. Warfare in the Balkans seemed to
threaten the stability of Europe, as well as the peace and security
of Kosovars, and yet armed resistance seemed to offer the only
possibility of future stability. Leading the struggle against
Serbia was the Kosovo Liberation Army, also known as the KLA.
"Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency"
provides a historical background for the KLA and describes its
activities up to and including the NATO intervention. Henry H.
Perritt Jr. offers firsthand insight into the motives and
organization of a popular insurgency, detailing the strategies of
recruitment, training, and financing that made the KLA one of the
most successful insurgencies of the post-cold war era. This volume
also tells the personal stories of young people who took up guns in
response to repeated humiliation by "foreign occupiers," as they
perceived the Serb police and intelligence personnel. Perritt
illuminates the factors that led to the KLA's success, including
its convergence with political developments in eastern Europe, its
campaign for popular support both at home and abroad, and its
participation in international negotiations and a peace settlement
that helped pave the long road from war to peace.
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