Fields of destruction

A detailed Summary of Fields of destruction

On March 24th, 1999, the NATO alliance, led by the United States, began bombing

Yugoslavia. They bombed every day, with steadily increasing numbers of planes and escalating

destructive power of bombs. The bombing was finally halted after 78 days, with an agreement for

withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo, to be replaced by a mixed force of NATO and

The bombing of Yugoslavia was, overwhelmingly, of specifically civilian targets: homes, roads, farms, factories, hospitals, bridges, churches, monasteries, columns of refugees, TV stations, office buildings. The bombing was not intended to maximize civilian deaths, but neither was it intended to minimize them. The aim of the bombing was to destroy civilian installations on which people's lives and comfort depended, killing a few thousand random civilians for good measure, and thus weakening the will of the population to resist, so that they would submit to NATO occupation.

Why did NATO bombed the small country like Yugoslavia? For this question there is a few different answers. First, NATO officials would say they did it to save thousands of lives from genocide commi

Second reason for bombing of Yugoslavia, and more realistic was that Yugoslavia had a very important geographical location for US. Yugoslavia is located right on the crossroad between three worlds. One, western Europe, two eastern Europe and Russia, and three very close to African continent. No matter what world power controlled id they would control major roads that go thru.

The guest speaker in one of my classes, Dr. Reza Ghods, professor on the Ohio State University, and expert on the international relations said something that caught my attention and something that I was trying to explain to most of Americans who wanted to discus the whole situation in Balcans. The bombing had absolutely nothing to do with humanities, and that a whole thing was about strategic reasons. Dr. Ghods spoke to one of the main officials for Balkans that told him even before anything happened, that they are going to start a war in Serbia too. He didn't want to name any names, but that official said " Next is Kosovo ". The war decision was made earlier than March of 1999. The US presented Yugoslavia with an ultimatum that the Yugoslavs could only reject. This was presumably deliberate on the part of the US negotiating team. Far from this being anything to do with Slobodan Milosevic, if Milosevic had accepted Rambouillet, he would have swiftly been replaced, and the US negotiators at Rambouillet must have known this. Whatever they may say in public, they are actually a

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