Croatia 1992, Bosnia 1992, Kosova 1999, Ukraine 2022
British soldier in Bosnia in the 1990s, there to provide security for UN aid convoys In Croatia's war of independence (1991-5), about 14,000 civilians died; in the Bosnian war (1992-5), about 40,000; in the Kosovan war (1998-9), about 12,000. We distrust and dislike NATO; but it was far from the main problem in these cases. It intervened only very late (a short bombing campaign against Serb nationalists in Bosnia in September 1995, another against Serbia over Kosova in March-June 1999), and it accounted for some hundreds among the tens of thousands of civilian casualties. The great majority...