Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency

by Henry H. Perritt Jr.

Book Overview

The military intervention by NATO in Kosovo was portrayed in American media as a necessary step to prevent the Serbian armed forces from repeating the ethnic cleansing that had so deeply damaged the former Yugoslavia. Serbia trained its military on Kosovo because of an ongoing armed struggle by ethnic Albanians to wrest independence from Serbia. Warfare in the Balkans seemed to threaten the stability of Europe, as well as the peace and security...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252087038
• ISBN13: 9780252087035
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 264 Pages