This weekend marks a curious anniversary. Twelve years ago, Nato’s air war to wrest the province of Kosovo from Serbia’s control ended after almost three months. ...
What makes the Kosovo anniversary curious is that Nato’s mission in Libya is so similar. As in Kosovo, the west intervened to prevent a humanitarian tragedy and has wound up engaged in a civil war on the side of an insurgency.
Of course, in the end we had a growing ground threat to frighten the Serbs in 1999 and we were lucky the enemy blinked over that.
This would be a good place to note a post about how we came to believe we'd win from the air over Kosovo in 1999 from our previous experience over Bosnia in 1995.
I'm hoping President Obama is as lucky as President Clinton.
