Winning Ugly Nato's War to Save Kosovo Author:Ivo H. Daalder, Michael E. O'Hanlon After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, an international military and political presence took charge, and nearly a million refugees returned. In a new book to be published on the first anniversary of the war's end, Ivo H. Daalder and Michae... more »l O'Hanlon explore the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kosovo conflict. Drawing on interviews with many key U.S., NATO, and allied participants, the authors analyze the diplomatic mistakes preceding the war and question NATO's strategy for averting a humanitarian crisis once the war began. They are particularly critical of the decision to use limited force for symbolic, psychological, and political purposes-a strategy that allowed the Serbs to radically alter Kosovo's ethnic balance through mass expulsion and genocide-before finally implementing a more forceful and successful strategy to end the war on NATO's terms.
The authors conclude their survey of the Kosovo crisis by examining how threats and the use of force might be manipulated in the future to achieve limited political objectives and how the conduct of such coercive diplomacy can best be managed within an alliance context.« less