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In March 1999, NATO began an air campaign over the skies of Serbia and Montenegro, bombing Yugoslav military and government targets in order to stop the "ethnic cleansing" and violence in Kosovo. Touted as a successful example of "humanitarian intervention" meant to stop "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide," NATO's campaign over Kosovo has set an international precedent for the use of military force to intervene in the internal conflicts of sovereign nations. The author, a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was on the ground with the 2000-person Kosovo Verification Mission as an intelligence contractor between October 1998 and March 1999. Every day during the five months leading up to the NATO offensive, he assessed and analyzed raw information reported by hundreds of "unarmed observer teams" operating throughout Kosovo. What he saw did not match what was being reported by Western diplomats the international press. Although Kosovo was locked in a violent insurgency, ethnic cleansing and genocide were not part of the equation during the 1998 Kosovo Crisis and the months leading up to the 1999 air campaign. General Wesley Clark, world leaders, and "experts" all assumed that the ai

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Author

Schifanelli, Marc

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9798869613202

Category

nonfiction