Conflict in the Balkans

Federation of American Scientists-Target Kosovo The best web site to explore open information on the air campaign. Lots of political, military and hardware information. Their Iraq Crisis website at Federation of American Scientists is also excellent for technical and political-military resources.
Balkans Internet Resources-Hokkaido University A splendid collection of books,artciles and data on the Balkans. This is part of the larger website at Hokkaido's Slavic Research Center
Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia, Editorial Cartoons
Daryl Cagles Professional Cartoonists Index with a special collection of political satire on the war in the Balkans. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Public List of Missing Persons in Kosovo
A list of several of the thousands of Kosovars missing as a result of "ethnic cleansing".
H-Net Habsburg Web Syllabi on East Central and Balkans History
This includes websites for a wide variety of online-history courses with links. This is part of H-Net,Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line , an inter-disciplinary organization of scholars devoted to exploring the immense educational potential of the Internet. Over 100 discussion groups in the humanites and social-sciences are active at H-Net
The Balkan Region-Amnesty International
Amnesty International reports and information on the Balkans.
Kosovo-Focus on Human Rights-Human Rights Watch
The latest HRW reports and news flashes on the war in Kosovo.
NATO OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE
The latest updates on the Kosovo crisis fron NATO headquarters with all the briefings,maps and imagery to date.
Yahoo Full Coverage on the Kosovo Crisis
Yahoo's excellent assemblage of a wide variety of sources on the conflict over Kosovo.
Russian and East European Network Information Center

REESWEB-Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources

RAMBOUILLET AND DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS
Key Points of Plan to Defuse the Crisis-Washington Post-5/7/99
Text of G-8 Statement on Kosovo-5/6/99
Full text of Yugoslav Ceasefire Offer-BBC-4/6/99
Nato Response to Ceasefire Offer-4/6/99
Draft Kosovo Interim Agreement-January 27,1999
Interim Agreement for Peace and Self Government in Kosovo-February 23,1999
Agreement for Self-Government in Kosmet-March 18,1999-Serrb Counter-proposal
Legal Guide to the Kosovo Conflict A collection of different resources, including treaties and peace proposals, on the current conflict. This is compiled by the Jurist:The Law Professors Newtwork , hosted at the University of Pittsburgh.
Text of the Yugoslav Statement on the Partial Troop Withdrawl-May 11,1999

REQUIRED READING FOR AIR CAMPAIGN DOCTRINE

Apache Attack Helicopter Homepage has interesting technical information on the Apache Helicopter. The Program Executive Office Aviation
also has information on other weapons systems such as the Comanche.

A Plan for the Employment of an Armored Corps in the Balkans-U.S Armor School,1952
A staff office paper during the Cold War
Advanced technology and Future Warfare-Eliot Cohen and Zeev Bonen-Mideast and security Policy Studies,No.28-Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
A look at the Military revolution by a key participant in the Gulf War Air Campaign Study.

Analysis of Ground Warfare Option -Stratfor
Three part analysis of ground options for NATO. This is part of the Kosovo Crisis Center at Stratfor.Com
Air University Library-Bibliographies
A compilation of bibliographies on such topics as Air Campaign Planning
and Yugoslavia(Former) and Post-Yugoslavia Crisis
FAS-Target Kosovo
Updated daily-the best web site for continuing coverage on the air campaign in Kosovo

Future War:An Assessment of Air Campaigns in 2010-Jeffrey Barnett
A intriguing look into the next 20 years of how airpower will be increasingly be used as an tool for coercion and terror.
The Balkan Air Campaign Study-Part1-Col.Robert Owen,USAF-Airpower Journal -Summer 1997
The Balkan Air Campaign Study-Part 2-Col.Robert Owen,USAF-Airpower Journal-Fall 1997
These two articles are an unclassified summary of the multi-volume study the AirForce conducted on the use of air power during Operation Deliberate Force in 1995. This campaign lasted 22 days in 1995 and included over 200 fighter and 70 support aircarft. They dropped 1026 weapons as opposed to the 227,840 during Desert Storm. The key difference was that the vast majority were precision-guided munitions(PGM's). Approximately 708 weapons were PGM's. NATO planners were added by the ground offensives launched by the rebuilt Croatian military and Bosnian Muslim's that resulted in the "ethnic cleansing" of several hundred thousand Serbs. But, it was the use of airpower in Deliberate Force and the heavy reliance on PGM's that had an influence on NATO in the ongoing campaign, Operation Allied Force .

Heart of the Storm:Genesis of the Air Campaign Against Iraq-Colonel Richard T.Reynolds,USAF
Thunder and Lightining:Desert Storm and the Airpower Debates-Colonel Edward Mann,III,USAF
A two-volume analysis on the air war in 1990-91 during the Gulf War.

Myths of the Gulf War-Dr. Grant T. Hammond-Airpower Journal Fall 1998

The Air War in El Salvador-Dr.James Corum-Airpower Journal Summer 1998

FAS-Iraq Crisis Similar in scope to the FAS Target Kosovo collection of information, current up to date information on the
air campaign over Iraq
The Effectiveness of Air Interdiction during the Korean War-Robert Mossman,OCMH,1966

British Air Control:A Model for the Application of Airpower in Low intensity Conflict- Captain David Parson,USAF-Airpower Journal-Summer 1994

Impact of Precision Weapons on Air Combat Operations-LTG Buster Glosson,USAF-Airpower Journal-Summer,1993
Marching Under Darkened Skies:The American Military and the Impending Urban Operations Threat- R.W Glenn- Rand Study
Planning Air Operations:Lessons from Operation Strangle in the Korean War-LTC Michael Kirtland-Airpower Journal-Summer 1992

The Vulture and the Snake: Counter-Guerrilla Air Warfare- The War in Southern Lebanon-Shmuel Gordon-Mideast Security and Policy Studies,No.39-July 1998-Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

Crisis in Kosovo-A CSIS Web Focus This includes Anthony Cordesmans updated assessment of the NATO air campaign and land options
United States Air Force Intelligence Targeting Guide
United States Strategic Bombing Survey-Pacific Theater,1946
United States Strategic Bombing Survey-European Theater,1946

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

German Anti-Guerrilla Operations in the Balkans-1941-1944-CMH Publication-104-18
German Campaign in the Balkans(Spring 1941)-CMH Publication 104-4
Foreign Military Studies Office
Foreign Military Studies Office-Europe Publications
South Balkans Reports Index-International Crisis Group
Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkans History(The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism)-Dr Steven Sowards course from Swarthmore College

The Third Balkan War and How it will End-Michael G. Roskin-Parameters,Autumn 1994
The Future of German Operations Outside Nato-Karlo Heinz-Borner-Parameters,Spring 1996
Peace and Stability Operations in Bosnia-Michael Manwaring-Parameters,Winter 1998
Thicker than Water? Kin,Religion and Conflict in the Balkans- P.H Liotta and Anna Simmons-Parameters,Winter,1998
SFOR in Bosnia in 1997:A Watershed Year-John L.Cirafici-Parameters,Spring 1999
Grunt Diplomacy:In the Beginning there were only Soldiers-Tony Cucolo-Parameters,Spring 1999
The Role of the Political Adviser in Peacekeeping Operations-David A.Lange-Parameters, Spring 1999
Parameters-U.S Army War College Quarterly

The Strategist and the Web:A Guide to Internet Resources- James Kievit and Steven Metz-Startegic Studies Institute
An excellent compendium of on-line sources fgor researching grand strategy,strategy and operational art.

A wide selection of articles from the The New York Review of Books .They contain a wide ranging and informed analysis of a wide variety of political,social and historical issues pertaining to the present situation in the Balkans.

The Conscience of Yugoslavia-Noam Chomsky-New York Review of Books-January 7,1971

The Precarious Country-Willam Shawcross-New York Review of Books-July 14.1977

Greece's Other History-L.S Stavrianos-New York Review of Books-June 14,1971

The Outlaw-Neal Ascherson-New York Review of Books-November 30,1972

The Repression at Belgrade University-New York Review of Books-February 7,1974

What should be fought for?-Mihaljo Mihaljov-New York Review of Books-February 22,1979

The Cold War Revisited-Arthur Schlesinger-New York Review of Books-October 25,1979

The Uprooted-Neal Ascherson-New York Review of Books-August 14,1980

The Boss-Irving Howe-New York Review of Books-January 22,1981

Progress of a Revolutionary-Nora Beloff-New York Review of Books- April 11,1985

A Conglomerate Country-Istvan Deak-New York Review of Books-November 7,1985

No Place for Them-Neal Ascherson-New York Review of Books-February 27,1986