Professional paper
How Flat is Kosovo: Some Social, Political and Military Aspects of Kosovo Conflict
Tarik Kulenović
Abstract
The war in Kosovo is the last in the row of wars set off by the disintegration of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). The question is, if we take into consideration that two years have passed since the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, why the Albanians postponed the armed uprising when the conditions for winning the military victory today are much worse then they were when Serbia was engaged in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Today, the war in Kosovo appears to be retarded continuation of the wars that took place on the territory of former-Yugoslavia. The author studies the reasons for “delay” of Kosovo’s war in relation to the wars that took place in the immediate surroundings of Kosovo including the inner logic which made Albanians to turn to armed option of the fight for freedom. The paper gives a review of the formations and tactics of sides in conflict, the impact of the war operations on the immediate surroundings, the role of the international community in localizing the conflict, and the possible future developments.
Keywords
Kosovo war; Liberation Army of Kosovo (OVK); Serbia
Hrčak ID:
202474
URI
Publication date:
22.12.1998.
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