5 Items

Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

The Struggle against Terrorism: Grand Strategy, Strategy, and Tactics

| Winter 2001/02

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have changed the international environment in ways that few would have imagined when the new millennium began. International Security rarely commissions articles, but the extraordinary events of September 11 deserve attention in these pages.

Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

The War for Kosovo: Serbia's Political-Military Strategy

| Spring 2000

Questions continue to swirl around Slobodan Milosevic's decision to pit Serb troops against NATO forces in the 1999 battle over Kosovo. Given NATO's overwhelming military superiority, what motivated the Serb leader to reject the Rambouillet accords and to fight a war that, at least on the surface, Serbia stood no chance of winning? Moreover, why did Milosevic agree to negotiate an end to the war when he did? The author addresses both questions through the "lens of strategy."