Casual War: NATO's Intervention in Kosovo

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 14, Issue , 2000, Pages 39-54

  Hodge, Carl Cavanagh ^a  

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EID: 85014678239     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2000.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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1. Du Pouvoir, reprinted as Bertrand de Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 11.
2. See any edition of Carl von Clausewitz, On War, bk. 5, chap. 3.
3. See also Williamson Murray, “Thinking About Revolutions in Military Affairs,” Joint Forces Quarterly (Summer 1997), pp. 69–76.
4. Raymond Aron, The Century of Total War (New York: Doubleday, 1954), p. 19.
5. The Century of Total War, pp. 9, 28.
6. John Keegan, War and Our World: The Reith Lectures, 1998 (London: Hutchinson, 1998), p. 44.
7. Campbell Craig, Destroying the Village: Eisenhower and Thermonuclear War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), p. 67.
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9. See also Luttwack's On Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987)
10. John Mueller, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War (New York: Basic Books, 1989).
11. See David A. Yost, NATO Transformed: The Alliance's New Roles in International Security (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace, 1998), pp. 9–35, 275.
12. NATO Transformed: The Alliance's New Roles in International Security, p. 291.
13. Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), pp. 84–90, 98–103. Krasner points out first that since Westphalia, sovereignty has seldom enjoyed in substance the prestige accorded in principle and, consequently, that contemporary challenges to the principle of national sovereignty generally are less novel and radical than is assumed.
14. Michael Ignatieff, “The Virtual Commander,” The New Yorker (August 2, 1999), p. 36.
15. Elsewhere he observes a “moral disconnection” between the new warmakers of ethnonationalism and liberal interventionists “who represent our moral stakes,” but the disconnect of relevance to NATO's Kosovo intervention was that between the humanitarian claims of its goals and the human price the Atlantic Alliance was prepared to pay for their achievement. The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (London: Chatto & Windus, 1998), p. 6.
16. John A. Gentry, “The Cancer of Human Rights,” Washington Quarterly 22 (Autumn 1999), pp. 95–112.
17. Stefan Troebst, Conflict in Kosovo: An Analytical Documentation, 1992–1998 (Flensburg: European Center for Minority Issues, 1998), p. 105. The Contact Group consisted of France, Germany, Italy, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, and United States of America.
18. Francis X. Clines, “NATO Opens Barrage against Serbs as Clinton Denounces Brutal Repression,” New York Times, March 25, 1999.
19. Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict, 1990–1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), p. 94.
20. “Human Rights in Kosovo: As Seen, As Told,” http://www.osce.org/kosovo/reports/hr/index.htm (OSCE, 1999), p. 3. The OSCE observer mission withdrew from Kosovo on March 20. The bombing commenced on March 24.
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22. Philip Towle, Cambridge University, “NATO's Strategic Bombardment Campaign against Serbia in 1999” (paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Committee on Atlantic Studies, American University of Paris, October 15–17, 1999), p. 3.
23. “NATO's Strategic Bombardment Campaign against Serbia in 1999”, pp. 2–3.
24. Charles Krauthammer, “The Road to Hell: Clinton, Kosovo and Good Intentions,” Washington Post, April 2, 1999, p. A29.
25. Zbigniew Brzezinski, “To Stop the Serbs,” Washington Post, March 30, 1999, p. A17.
26. Warren Hoge, “Blair's Anger Fuels Support for Strikes,” New York Times, March 31, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/europe/033199kosovo-britain.html. Not until the end of May, however, did Blair pledge up to 50,000 troops for an invasion force.
27. Philip Sherwell, “Blair Pledges 50,000 Men for Invasion,” Daily Telegraph, May 30, 1999, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et.
28. Towle, p. 1.
29. See also John Keegan, “Please, Mr. Blair, Never Take Such a Risk Again,” Daily Telegraph, June 6, 1999, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et.
30. Simon Jenkins, “A Victory for Cowards,” The Times, June 11, 1999, http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/06/11.
31. Eliot A. Cohen, “What's Wrong with the American Way of War?” Wall Street Journal, March 30, 1999, p. A26.
32. Michael Howard, “Empires, Nations and Wars,” Yigal Allon Memorial Lectures, University of Tel Aviv, March 1982
33. reprinted in The Lessons of History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 48.
34. Edward N. Luttwak, “Give War a Chance,” Foreign Affairs 78 (July/August 1999), pp. 36–44.