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The Kosovo Conflict 1999: Operation Allied Forces By:Katie Van Winkle and Graham Devine (Grazia Neri/R. Arcari/Corbis Sygma) ||
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Tasks I: Explain the nature and scope of the conflict.-- Due Friday, November 18th

The Kosovo Conflict started in early 1989 and ended in 1999 when Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic sent Serbian troops to take back areas of Kosovo controlled by ethnic Albanian guerrillas. The conflict was mainly fought between forces under Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (Serbians) and the ethnic Albanian majority's in small parts of Kosovo. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) thought that war was unfair so in 1999 NATO triggered an air campaign. The Albanians could not fend for themselves so U.S Forces where needed in this conflict. NATO called apon the US and other countrie to aid in relief of Kosovo because the Serbians where making sure that the Albanians could not fight back sufficiently. According to the book Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment //by// //Johathan F. Vance, " Serbian forces took thousands of military-aged men from their families and held them in mass detention sites, such as a cement factory in Djeneral Jankovic, the Ferro-Nickel factory in Glogovae, a school in Vučitrn, and in Srbica, where as many as 20,000 ethnic Albanians were used as human shields for Serbian tanks."// // The United States got involved in this conflict because NATO intervened. Our forces were required and put in danger of capture. In the book //Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment //by Johathan F. Vance it says, "Many of the prisoners of war who were not placed in mass detention centers became the victims of summary executions. Refugee accounts suggested that at least 4,000 Kosovars were executed. In some instances, Serbian forces would order an unarmed Kosovar POW to run away in order to shoot him from behind. Killings took place in at least 70 towns and villages throughout Kosovo . Mass graves were reported in Drenica, Kaaniku, Rezalla, Malisevo, Pusto Selo, Izbica, and in the Pagarusa Valley". NATO's intervention was needed because the Albanians human rights where being taken away.// //An Aerial Attack campiegn agiast the Serbians was the solution to this issue. It successfully drove back the Serbians but as of 2003, according to// Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present //by Matthew J. Gibney and Randall Hansen, the region of Kosovo is still having issues with its legal status.//

//Vance, Jonathan F. "Kosvo War"// Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment//. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.// ABC-CLIO eBook Collection//. Web. 18 Nov 2011.// //Hansen, Randall, Matthew J. Gibney. "Kosovo."// Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present//. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.// ABC-CLIO eBook Collection//. Web. 18 Nov 2011.//

//Draw your information from a minimum of **two** LC e-books and databases. Organize your response in an extended power paragraph. In an appositive phrase, establish the credibility of each source the first time you reference it. Internally cite sources and place the works cited at below the last paragraph for Task I.//

//Task II: Analyze the U.S.’s involvement in the conflict.- Due Tuesday, November 22nd // Out of Max Boot's categories our small war fits protective because NATO came in to help protect the Albanians who could not fend for themselves so U.S Forces where needed in this conflict. NATO called apon the US and other countrie to aid in relief of Kosovo because the Serbians where making sure that the Albanians could not fight back sufficiently. Many important leaders at this time would be Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, United States president George H.W. Bush because they were both influential in commanding and cornering troops and attacks. The progress and out come of our war depends alot on the leader and how big of a risk taker because if a leader chooses to use all of his troops in one battle and you loose then the war will be over. The Eisenhower Doctrine best fits the goal of this small war because it deals with interfering in other countries affairs. Eisnehower states in the doctrine “(I Authorize the commitment of US forces) to secure and protect the territorial integrity and political independent of such nations, requesting such aid against over armed aggression from any nation”. The Serbians fit this criteria well.There was no precedent for Kosovo but it did set a precedent. The point of Kosovo was to protect our European allies from destabilizing. However, according to the Deseret News, //Utah’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper, the war in Kosovo was, “Reflecting a subtle shift in the White House's thinking, Secretary of State Madeline Albright said NATO's intervention in Kosovo should not send a signal that the alliance will intervene in other conflicts. ” The war was controversial from the start but it did shift our how we view situations like this.// The US president of the time was Bill Clinton and his reasons for involving the military was that the ethnical cleansing of Kosovo could potentially destabilize Europe and NATO. According to U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy: From 1789 to the Present //, “ On March 23, 1999, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy to the region counted about 260,000 internally displaced persons within Kosovo and more than 100,000 refugees in the region. Also, it was in the interest of the United States to stop the violations against humanity in spite of European paralysis in conflict management.” These refugees where crippling the countries around them but they could not stay in Kosovo in fear of the Serbians. //

//"Don't Look at NATO's Bombing of Yugoslavia as a Precedent, Albright says." // Deseret News//. Deseret News, 29 June 1999. Web. 21 Nov. 2011.// // . //

//Nolan, Cathal J., Carl Cavanagh Hodge. "William Jefferson Clinton (1993–2001)." //U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy: From 1789 to the Present //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">ABC-CLIO eBook Collection //<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">. Web. 21 Nov 2011 //

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Draw your information from a minimum of **three** LC e-books and databases--at least one primary source and one expert opinion. Organize your response in one or two extended power paragraphs. In an appositive phrase, establish the credibility of the source the first time you reference it. Internally cite sources and place the works cited at below the last paragraph for Task II.

<span style="background-color: #ff002d; color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">TASK III: How did United States' Public view this conflict? <span style="background-color: #ff002d; color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Due Tuesday, Noevmber 29th The conflict was controversial among Americans because NATO just came in and started bombing cities. Some Americans thought that was unfair because American planes bombed Kosovo cities. The two dominate opinion were that we should not be interfering because it was not our fight and the other is that it was a war that we should be involved in. People believed that we should be involved in Kosovo because they believes the Europeans no longer had the power to stop things like Kosovo. An article form the Los Angeles Times states “ World War I was the last European war in which the Europeans put more men into the field and deployed greater financial assets than the United States. In Kosovo there are fewer than 50 British aircraft in theater. Without the U.S., the British and wider European ability to deliver a punch is nil ”. Americans also believed, at the time, that this conflict was none of our business and that we should focus on our own problems. More people believed we did the right thing by aiding Kosovo. The public opinion was for Kosovo at the time. When the Serbians began their attack on Kosovo in 1993 Americans should assist in any way that they could. We took in refugees and sent supplies to Kosovo. My father remembers going to school with two teenagers from Kosovo. He remembers having conversations with them about just how bad conditions where over there and they, my father and the two refugees, all asked the same question, why hadn’t we sent our military in yet? This opinion persuaded our government into sending in bombers. .

Draw your information from a minimum of **three** LC e-books and databases--at least **one** primary source and **one** expert opinion. Organize your response in one or two extended power paragraphs. In an appositive phrase, establish the credibility of the source the first time you reference it. Internally cite sources and place the works cited at below the last paragraph for Task III.

<span style="background-color: #ff002d; color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Task IV: Did the U.S. achieve its goals? -- <span style="background-color: #ff002d; color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px;">Due Friday, December 2nd The Kosovo Conflict ended with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) bombing all rebel locations and rebel leader Slobodan Milošević was captured. Success measured by NATO or the U.S. winning and ending the rebel attacks on civilians. Another success was that the U.S. and NATO showed the world the power and ability it had. The outcome effected the American public by becoming frustrated with NATO Europeans that did nothing and relied on the U.S. to be the police men of the world even though the conflict was accruing in their part of the world. The U.S. standings with its allies and enemies did not really change because they already knew the power and strength of the U.S. The belligerents were fearful of us because we had killed and captured there army and leader. The U.S. decision makers and military leaders were neither praised or vilified by the majority American public they were more just patted on the back for the good work they did.

Draw your information from a minimum of **three** LC e-books and databases--at least **one** primary source and **two** expert opinions. Organize your response in one or two extended power paragraphs. In an appositive phrase, establish the credibility of the source the first time you reference it. Internally cite sources and place the works cited at below the last paragraph for Task III.

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