More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale.
What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalization?
According to Bacevich and Cohen, gauging the "success" achieved in Kosovo yields important answers to these and related questions. The volume includes a well-crafted historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in a broader context. The contributors explore the conflict's relationship to U.S. grand strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.
Contributors: William A. Arkin, Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen, Alberto R. Coll, James Kurth, Anatol Lieven, Michael Vickers
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen
- Contributors
- 1. Operation Allied Force: “The Most Precise Application of Air Power in History”
- 2. Kosovo and the New American Way of War
- 3. First War of the Global Era: Kosovo and U.S. Grand Strategy
- 4. Hubris and Nemesis: Kosovo and the Pattern of Western Military Ascendancy and Defeat
- 5. Kosovo and the Moral Burdens of Power
- 6. Neglected Trinity: Kosovo and the Crisis in U.S. Civil-Military Relations
- 7. Revolution Deferred: Kosovo and the Transformation of War
- Index
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