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Britain, Nato and the Lessons of the Balkan Conflicts »

Authors: Stephen Badsey (Editor), Paul Latawski
ISBN-13: 9780714651903, ISBN-10: 0714651907
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Stephen Badsey

Book Synopsis

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 the lessons to be learnt from the Balkan experience, which will shape thinking on defence and international security far into the new millennium.

	Introduction : experience of Kosovo
1	Yugoslav quagmires : the image of the past and the fear of intervention	3
2	The Wehrmacht's Yugoslav quagmire : myth or reality?	14
3	Doctrinal change : the experience of Bosnia and Kosovo	27
4	Kosovo : the air campaign	39
5	Media operations : lessons from Kosovo	67
6	Media interaction in the Kosovo conflict	79
7	Modern conflicts, the media and public opinion : the Kosovo example	98
8	NATO's military action over Kosovo : the conceptual landscape after the battle	121
9	Russian policy during the Kosovo conflict	139
10	Kosovo, NATO and the United Nations	153
11	From antipathy to hegemony : the impact on civil-military cooperation	181
12	The role of humanitarian aid in conflict management	203
13	Some reverberations from the Kosovo conflict	211
14	Managing and removing the conditions for armed conflict	228
	Conclusion	242