03094nam 2200565 450 991081680930332120230721034601.01-61251-555-X(CKB)3710000000077631(EBL)1507328(OCoLC)862049850(MiAaPQ)EBC1507328(Au-PeEL)EBL1507328(CaPaEBR)ebr10820241(CaONFJC)MIL685707(EXLCZ)99371000000007763120070502d2007 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierNATO's gamble combining diplomacy and airpower in the Kosovo crisis, 1998-1999 /Dag HenriksenFirst Naval Institute Press paperback edition.Annapolis, Maryland :Naval Institute Press,2007.1 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59114-358-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-253) and index.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.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. manOperation Allied Force, 1999Kosovo War, 1998-1999Aerial operationsKosovo War, 1998-1999Participation, AmericanIntervention (International law)United StatesArmed ForcesKosovo (Republic)United StatesHistory, Military20th centuryOperation Allied Force, 1999.Kosovo War, 1998-1999Aerial operations.Kosovo War, 1998-1999Participation, American.Intervention (International law)949.7103Henriksen Dag1667331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816809303321NATO's gamble4027084UNINA