Conflict in the Balkans 1991-2000

by Tim Ripley, Mark Rolfe (Illustrator)

Overview

Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well as local pilots in the former Yugoslavia. From bombing by B-2 stealth bombers to air-to-air combat; from moving ground troops by helicopter to 'food-bombing' for refugees, air power has played a vital role in 'Europe's Vietnam', and there is little sign that the fires of conflict are being extinguished. Debate amongst air power practitioners has yielded little agreement as to the degree of damage inflicted on the Yugoslav 3rd Army in Kosovo, the Balkans continue to be a region of conflict and ethnic hatred.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472803832
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2013
Series:	Combat Aircraft , #24
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Balkan expert Tim Ripley has been fascinated by the conflicts of the former Yugoslavia since 1992, when he submitted his first report on the airlift to the besieged city of Sarajevo. He has since reported extensively on the activities of UN and NATO peacekeeping troops in Bosnia, Croatia, and more recently in Macedonia and Kosovo. His work has appeared in many well respected defence journals, including 'Jane's Defence Weekly', 'Jane's Intelligence Review' and 'Flight International'. He is the author of 'Air War Bosnia' and 'Operation Deliberate Force', published by Lancaster University's Centre for Defence and International Security Studies.

Mark Rolfe is an extremely talented profile artist. He has worked on a number of titles in Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces and Combat Aircraft series.

Table of Contents

1991 Yugoslavia at War/Slovenia/Croatia/1992 Bosnian War/Western Intervention/1993 Srebrenica/1994 Shoot Down/Gorazde/Udbina/1995 Hostage Crisis/Enter Holbrooke/Sarajevo/1996 Operation Deliberate Force/1997 Albania Rescue/1998 Crisis over Kosovo/Helping the Refugees/Enter the Apaches/Target Belgrade/Harriers at War/Rescue Mission/Into Kosovo/Allied Operations