Lieutenant Henson is an Army PA serving as the battalion physician assistant for Task Force 1-77 of Task Force Falcon, the US military presence in Kosovo; the letter was written in August 1999. I arrived at Camp Bondsteel, the US military base in southeastern Kosovo, on June 18, 1...
In May 1999, our 81st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (EFS) was flying out of Gioia del Colle Air Base (AB), Italy, conducting around-the-clock combat operations in support of Operation Allied Force (OAF). In the midst of this, several pilots began talking about writing a book. Those of ...
Slobodan Milosevic authoritarian regime left Kosovo’s economy in ruins due to street fighting that were going on in the late 1990’s as well as due to the air bombardment on the part of Serbian Army. Today, Kosovo is among one of the poorest nations in Europe and “it is ranked by ...
Crane, C.C. (2004). From Korea to Kosovo: Matching Expectations with Reality for Modern Airpower in Limited Wars. In: Morton, J.S., Nation, R.C., Forage, P., Bianchini, S. (eds) Reflections on the Balkan Wars: Ten Years After the Break Up of Yugoslavia. Palgrave Macmillan, New Y...
Both Belgrade and Pristina have accepted the EU plan in principle, saying it is a good base for further negotiations. Normalisation of relations with Kosovo is one of the key conditions for Serbia to progress towards EU membership. Serbia continues to support the refusal of 50,000 ethnic...
51. The Church of St Jeremiah in Grebnik was built in 1920 on the base of the ancient church. Around the church were several-hundred-years-old oak-trees and an ancient cemetery. The church was razed to the ground and the terrain was bulldozed over. ...
As an afternoon sun melted the snow on this hilltop base of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), soldiers walked about with a confident ease and prepared for another day of battle. On the eve of the Feb. 28 anniversary marking the start of their open conflict with the Serbs...
On US Patrol to Stem Kosovo Chaos the Risks of the Mission Are Never Far Away as They Set Up Camp at a Former Yugoslav Army BaseTwo US Army Humvees roll down the country road like a pair of large, exotic bugs, their long antennas swaying in the summer sky. Night falls gradually on ...
The social base of Zog’s power was a coalition of southern beys and northern bajraktars. With the support of this coalition—plus a vast Ottoman-style bureaucracy, an efficient police force, and Italian money—King Zog brought a large measure of stability to Albania. He extended the authori...
and Bulgarians inflicted a heavy defeat on the Ottoman army at Pločnik, but a turning point came when the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Shishman broke with the alliance of Slavic powers and accepted Ottoman suzerainty. No longer threatened from the east, the armies of SultanMurad Iwere able to con...