NATO's gamble : combining diplomacy and airpower in the Kosovo crisis, 1998-1999 / Dag Henriksen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henriksen, Dag.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operation Allied Force, 1999.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Aerial operations.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Participation, American.

Intervention (International law).

United States--Armed Forces--Kosovo (Republic).

United States.

United States--History, Military--20th century.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Armed Forces--Kosovo (Republic).

North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

First Naval Institute Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2007.

Summary:

In this revealing work, Dag Henriksen discloses the origins and content of NATO's strategic and conceptual thinking on how the use of force was to succeed politically in altering the behavior of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The air campaign, known as Operation Allied Force, was the first war against any sovereign nation in the history of NATO and the first major combat operation conducted for humanitarian purposes against a state committing atrocities within its own borders. This book examines the key political, diplomatic, and military processes that shaped NATO and U.S. man

Contents:

Operation Allied Force: how NATO stumbled into war

The first week of OAF

Prelude to war: setting the stage for Operation Allied Force

The airpower debate and OAF

From Vietnam to Kosovo: U.S. foreign policy and the use of force

Lessons from Bosnia

The international handling of the Kosovo crisis

The crisis emerges: NATO becomes responsible for crisis management

Shift in U.S. policy toward the KLA

and the summer offensive

NATO threatens air strikes: silence before the storm

Račak

and the Rambouillet Conference

NATO crisis management in perspective

Diplomacy and airpower.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-253) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61251-555-X

OCLC:

862049850