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UNINA9910465037203321 |
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Autore |
Henriksen Dag |
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NATO's gamble : combining diplomacy and airpower in the Kosovo crisis, 1998-1999 / / Dag Henriksen |
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Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2007 |
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Edizione |
[First Naval Institute Press paperback edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Operation Allied Force, 1999 |
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 - Aerial operations |
Kosovo War, 1998-1999 - Participation, American |
Intervention (International law) |
Electronic books. |
United States Armed Forces Kosovo (Republic) |
United States History, Military 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-253) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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