The Nato assault that prised Kosovo from Slobodan Milosevic’s grip in March-June 1999 has been overshadowed by the Iraq war four years later. It deserves renewed attention both as the last of the major ex-Yugoslav conflicts and as a pioneering example of modern “risk-transfer war”, says Martin Shaw.
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