By Christian F. Anrig
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Western crisis management responses, however, often proved unsatisfactory. 3 Ethnic clashes and crisis interventions have not been the only concerns for the international community. 4 Moreover, at the dawn of the new century, the 11 September attacks brought international terrorism prominently onto the international agenda. 5 To sum up, developments during the post–Cold War era have led to increased uncertainty and instability in many parts of the world. Due to globalisation, regional tensions and conflicts generate ripple effects that influence apparently secure Western states.
5. Timothy Garden, “European Air Power,” in Gray, Air Power 21, 9. 6. Richard A. Bitzinger, Facing the Future: The Swedish Air Force, 1990–2005 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1991), 13, 27. Chapter 2 Post–Cold War Challenges Our discussion now turns to the uncertainties created by shifting defence and alliance policies and to the challenge of real operations, thereby providing the background for the air forces selected for examination. These issues closely relate as they show how air power has both been shaped by the political level and been used as a means to pursue political goals.
A further humiliation for the UN followed when in July 1995, Dutch peacekeepers failed to protect Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. 123 Deliberate Force. The immediate event that triggered a more robust air campaign—Operation Deliberate Force—NATO’s first major combat mission ever, was the shelling of a marketplace in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on 28 August 1995. Early on 30 August 1995, NATO aircraft took off to strike targets in Bosnia. The campaign itself was halted for negotiations. After these faltered, the bombing was resumed.