Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albanian Kosovars the independence they crave, it would afford them three years of breathing room under international protection to practice being a state. After that, they could come back to negotiate or fight for full freedom from Serb rule. While Slobodan Milosevic would have to swallow Kosovar autonomy and NATO peacekeepers inside his territory, he'd get out from under a hard-to-finish war that earns him international opprobrium, and he'd retain ownership of land regarded by Serbs as the heart of their nation...
...NATO action, while partly humanitarian in mission, will eventually have its darker, realpolitik side revealed. As America plays a balancing act between courting European support for a U.S.-dominated 21st century and calming Russian fears of encirclement, America's actions this week will appear to some as another move by an administration characterized by sudden action...
...others, however, if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refuses to withdraw troops and NATO, facing another credibility gap, sends in ground support, the real events will happen trench by trench. As field commanders on all sides make seemingly insignificant day to day decisions--where to move a group of civilians, which targets in a town will be hit first, which town to move to next--they will come to define the course of the war more definitely than the press releases from home...
...NATO enters this conflict late in the game, however. The roads and fields of Kosovo have been dealing with this violence since the early 1990s. For example, the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms in Kosovo reports that, eleven days ago, on March 14, the following events, others, occurred in the province of Kosovo...
...wars, it has been said, are civil wars. The boundaries of nations ever in flux, "are nothing to the bond of common humanity. The war in Kosovo will not depend on the guiding hand of NATO advisers, nor on the technological might its militaries have in store, nor even upon the realpolitik or game theoretic calculations of foreign policy advisors. It will be fought and decided, as war has always been fought and decided: town by town, hill by hill and house by house...