Why Did The Nato Attack

In March 1999, NATO started its first military campaign against the Serbian army to re- establish peace and order in Kosovo. As a result of the lack of planning and miscalculation, more than 800.000 Kosovar Albanians had to flee their homes and thousands of civilians were used as military targets by Serbs forces, provoking one of the most sadistic massacres in Europe since the Second World War.
NATO failed in crucial points during the Kosovo crisis, which led to the war. Despite the continuous warnings from different sources, The Alliance never took seriously Milosevic’s menaces to retaliate asymmetrically via unconventional approach, namely, ethnic cleansing and the creation of a ruthless refugee crisis. Furthermore, the NATO countries publicly showed division whether to carry out the military intervention. Finally and most important, the Alliance put the Serbian leader into a position where confrontation was the unique choice for the Serbs. The present essay will explore Sun Tzu doctrine to analyze this particular case, highlighting his main basic
Nevertheless, once the bombing started, any restraint based on NATO reprisals vanished and Milosevic had to push harder, pursuing a larger and more destructive cleansing campaign than originally planned. Soon, the Serb leaders realized that his enemy had surrounded them with no way to escape but to use the refugees as a military weapon. In short, the Alliance miscalculated the Milosevic’s movement in case of being in a desperate status quo, which resulted in thousands of killings to Albanian Kosovars. From a Sun Tzu perspective, NATO put the Serb army into a position with no escape, no alternative.” The only way out for the Serbs was to escalate the