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Winning Ugly - Nato (TM)s Wars to Save Kosovo (Hardcover)
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After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United
States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops
were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and
political presence to take charge in the region. But was this war
inevitable or was it the product of failed western diplomacy prior
to the conflict? And once it became necessary to use force, did
NATO adopt a sound strategy to achieve its aims of stabilizing
Kosovo? In this first in-depth study of the Kosovo crisis, Ivo
Daalder and Michael O'Hanlon answer these and other questions about
the causes, conduct, and consequences of the war. Based on
interviews with many of the key participants, they conclude that
notwithstanding important diplomatic mistakes before the conflict,
it would have been difficult to avoid the Kosovo war. That being
the case, U.S. and NATO conduct of the war left much to be desired.
For more than four weeks, the Serbs succeeded where NATO failed,
forcefully changing Kosovo's ethnic balance by forcing 1.5 million
Albanians from their home and more than 800,000 from the country.
Had they chosen to massacre more of their victims, NATO would have
been powerless to stop them. In the end, NATO won the war by
increasing the scope and intensity of bombing, making serious plans
for a ground invasion, and moving diplomacy into full gear in order
to convince Belgrade that this was a war Serbia would never win.
The Kosovo crisis is a cautionary tale for those who believe force
can be used easily and in limited increments to stop genocide, mass
killing, and the forceful expulsion of entire populations. Daalder
and O'Hanlon conclude that the crisis holds important diplomatic
and military lessons that must be learned so that others in the
future might avoid the mistakes that were made in this case.
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