Bosnian War

When it comes to the employment of the military instrument of national power, the ability of airpower to influence the strategic environment has been repeatedly demonstrated throughout history. Since 1991, the US has turned to airpower to achieve strategic objectives in a variety of ways. While there are numerous examples, we will examine how airpower has been utilized in two general categories: containment and humanitarian rights. The first category will discuss how the US has utilized…

unique history. In Srebrenica, Bosnia, thousands of people were killed in a war. The genocide and ethnic cleansing of Srebrenica was considered to be the worst genocide since World War II. The war began in 1992 and lasted for four years, until 1996. Muslims were forced to migrate out of Srebrenica, and those that failed to do so were executed. The failed protection of Srebrenica by safeguards resulted in this catastrophe.This war was the result in one of the worst genocides in human history and…

A short story in which there is a conflict between two characters is Michael Morpurgo's "What Does It Feel Like?". The story tells us about a village in Bosnia, which has been invaded by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War. We are introduced to a girl called Sofia, who lives in this village. We see the events unfold through her eyes, as the soldiers destroy the village in a coordinated yet ruthless attack. This makes the story all the more harrowing and disturbing, as we see how a young girl…

win, not the war, because war had nothing to do with humanity. War is inhumane.” (Filipovic, 1994, p. 33) Zlata Filipovic has been through more in just her childhood than most people will in their entire lives. No child should have to see what Zlata saw, live what Zlata lived. Witnessing this war was unimaginable until reading Zlata’s Diary. Zlata was only eleven years old when she started writing in her diary that documented her experiences during the Bosnian Conflict. The Bosnian conflict was…

Coping Mechanisms in Times of Crisis During the Bosnian War In Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco, the ideas that Sacco illustrates in his vivid comics are based on the relationship between the destruction of the people of Gorazde and how they coped with unimaginable situations in the traumatic world they called reality. Sacco is able to clearly depict the agonizing hardships of the Muslim people during the Bosnian war in times of death and destruction. The sympathy one may feel for the characters…

said about political scientists. When it comes to complex topics such as the causes of civil wars, many in the field of political science have differing opinions on how they start and how to classify them. Many of the written material read for class, such as Jesse and Williams’ “Ethnic Conflict”, stride more towards a constructivist side of civil war, reinforce more of a primordialist view on Civil Wars. Some political scientists look more towards the actual details and side more with the…

and bureaucratic organisation permitted states to take the methods of total war to new extremes.” One method arguably being the use of sexual violence. Furthermore developing a new ‘weapons of war’, were many innocent civilians are, "transformed from accidental victims…

When Croatia separated from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, while the Croats and Muslims supported the idea of independence, the Croatian Serbs were opposed to the decision. The Serbs, instead, wanted to combine with Serbia to create a greater Serbia. In order to complete this, they began an ethnic cleansing of Croatia. An ethnic cleansing is where an ethnicity is killed off. The Serbs attacked people who were of another ethnicity, such as the Croats and Muslims. However, many became refugees and…

In 1992, the Bosnian Serb army with the support of the Yugoslav Army Serbia began an effort to ethnically cleanse all non-Serbian residents from a great deal of Bosnia. As a component of its ethnic cleansing operation, Bosnian Serb army used strategies such as systematic maltreatment through the use of things such as torture, murder, rape, harassment, unfairness, threats, displacement of people, confiscation and destruction of property, as well as the destruction of cultural objects such as…

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and philosopher, is known for his contributions to the topic of political realism. One of his most notable works on this subject tells the history of the Peloponnesian War. Halfway through this war, Athens decided that they wanted to take over the last island that was not theirs. The conflict that arose between the Athenians and the people of the island Melos gave life to the quote “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” I agree with…