1st Edition
Britain, NATO and the Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts, 1991 -1999
288 Pages
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Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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This publication considers the lessons to be gained for Britain, the British armed forces, and for NATO as a whole, from the Yugoslav wars of dissolution (1991-1999), with particular emphasis on the Kosovo crisis. The papers come from a diverse and high quality mixture of analysts, practitioners and policy-makers. The issues developed here represent a significant advance in the emerging debate on... Read more
Part 1: The Image of the Past 1. Yugoslav Quagmires: The image of the past and fear of intervention 2. The Wehrmacht's Yugoslav Quagmire: Myth or reality Part 2: The Military Legacy of the Balkans 3. Doctrinal Change: The experience of Bosnia and Kosovo 4. The Air Campaign Part 3: The Media and the Kosovo Conflict 5. Media Operations: Lessons from Kosovo 6. Media Interaction in the Kosovo Conflict 7. Modern Conflicts, the Media and Public Opinion: The Kosovo example Part 4: Contested International Responses 8. NATO's Military Action Over Kosovo: The conceptual landscape after the battle 9. Russian Policy during the Kosovo Conflict 10. Kosovo, NATO and the United Nations Part 5: Conflict Termination and Peace-building 11. From Antipathy to Hegemony: The impact on civil-military cooperation 12. The Role of Humanitarian Aid in Conflict Management Part 6: Balkan Futures 13. Some Reverberations from the Kosovo Conflict 14. Managing and Removing the Conditions for Armed Conflict
Biography
Dr Stephen Badsey is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and editor of The Media and International Security in the Sandhurst Conference series.
Dr Paul Latowski is also a Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst and has edited a number of books including Contemporary Nationalism in East Central Europe.
'This book is a broad discussion of how future military action, peacekeeping and civil-military relations should be handled. James Gow stresses for instance, that a time frame for the 'Wests' involvement be 'as long as it takes.' - Peace Research
