Marc Weller
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199566167
- eISBN:
- 9780191705373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566167.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter addresses the conduct of NATO hostilities against the FRY, and international attempts at settlement. It is argued that the scale and swiftness of the FRY/Serbian campaign of ethnic ...
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This chapter addresses the conduct of NATO hostilities against the FRY, and international attempts at settlement. It is argued that the scale and swiftness of the FRY/Serbian campaign of ethnic persecution in Kosovo bolstered NATO cohesion. Furthermore, when the ICTY indicted the top leadership of the FRY/Serbia, Belgrade was stripped of its legitimacy, with important implications for international perceptions of NATO's use of force. From the end of March 1999, serious efforts were made to settle the conflict. A set of agreed principles on a political solution was adopted by the G-8 on 6 May 1999. This was accepted by FRY/Serbia on 9 May, and emerged as Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) on 10 June, providing for complete withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo and the placing of the latter under exclusive UN control. In addition, a Military Technical Agreement addressed immediate issues of military withdrawal.Less
This chapter addresses the conduct of NATO hostilities against the FRY, and international attempts at settlement. It is argued that the scale and swiftness of the FRY/Serbian campaign of ethnic persecution in Kosovo bolstered NATO cohesion. Furthermore, when the ICTY indicted the top leadership of the FRY/Serbia, Belgrade was stripped of its legitimacy, with important implications for international perceptions of NATO's use of force. From the end of March 1999, serious efforts were made to settle the conflict. A set of agreed principles on a political solution was adopted by the G-8 on 6 May 1999. This was accepted by FRY/Serbia on 9 May, and emerged as Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) on 10 June, providing for complete withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosovo and the placing of the latter under exclusive UN control. In addition, a Military Technical Agreement addressed immediate issues of military withdrawal.
Ira A. Hunt
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813142081
- eISBN:
- 9780813142449
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813142081.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Chapter Three looks at the effects of the “war by budget” on the Cambodian Civil War. It discusses the inability of the Cambodians to hold off the Khmer communist insurgency and the subsequent fall ...
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Chapter Three looks at the effects of the “war by budget” on the Cambodian Civil War. It discusses the inability of the Cambodians to hold off the Khmer communist insurgency and the subsequent fall of Cambodia. It suggests that the U.S. Congress’s failure to provide the funding necessary to adequately support the war effort caused defeatism among the Cambodian forces. The Khmer communists, in contrast, seemed to become better equipped and supplied as the war wore on. Another key factor was that, as in South Vietnam, the United States withdrew its supporting combat forces, attempting to augment the loss by providing the Cambodian forces with additional armor, artillery, and tactical air equipment. This chapter suggests that both cases were due to ideological clashes.Less
Chapter Three looks at the effects of the “war by budget” on the Cambodian Civil War. It discusses the inability of the Cambodians to hold off the Khmer communist insurgency and the subsequent fall of Cambodia. It suggests that the U.S. Congress’s failure to provide the funding necessary to adequately support the war effort caused defeatism among the Cambodian forces. The Khmer communists, in contrast, seemed to become better equipped and supplied as the war wore on. Another key factor was that, as in South Vietnam, the United States withdrew its supporting combat forces, attempting to augment the loss by providing the Cambodian forces with additional armor, artillery, and tactical air equipment. This chapter suggests that both cases were due to ideological clashes.
Rashid Khalidi
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202417
- eISBN:
- 9780191675348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202417.003.0022
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Middle East History
Nasser emerged from the Suez crisis as the pre-eminent leader of Arab nationalism. ‘Nasserism’ was elevated to the status of an ideology throughout the Arab world. As this chapter points out, the ...
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Nasser emerged from the Suez crisis as the pre-eminent leader of Arab nationalism. ‘Nasserism’ was elevated to the status of an ideology throughout the Arab world. As this chapter points out, the confrontation at Suez had the opposite effect to that intended by the planners of the invasion. The intervention stimulated radical nationalism. Existing trends were magnified and strengthened. This chapter traces the antecedents of these developments from the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and calls attention to Nasser's ‘extraordinary feat’ in 1954 of securing British military withdrawal from Egypt after seventy-two years of occupation.Less
Nasser emerged from the Suez crisis as the pre-eminent leader of Arab nationalism. ‘Nasserism’ was elevated to the status of an ideology throughout the Arab world. As this chapter points out, the confrontation at Suez had the opposite effect to that intended by the planners of the invasion. The intervention stimulated radical nationalism. Existing trends were magnified and strengthened. This chapter traces the antecedents of these developments from the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1952 and calls attention to Nasser's ‘extraordinary feat’ in 1954 of securing British military withdrawal from Egypt after seventy-two years of occupation.
