On March 24, 1999, Kosovo’s landscape was permanently altered as the first bombs fell from warplanes overhead, and missiles were launched by warships in the Adriatic Sea. Forty Serbian military targets in Yugoslavia were hit in the first 24 hours, mainly in Serbia and Kosovo.
It was the beginning of NATO’s air campaign known as ‘Operation Allied Force,’ which would last for 78 days. Its aim was to end the escalating conflict and humanitarian crisis by forcing Slobodan Milosevic’s regime to pull its forces out of Kosovo.
“We will systematically and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and ultimately – unless President Milosevic complies with the demands of the international community – destroy these forces and their facilities and support,” NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Wesley Clark, told journalists at NATO headquarters after the first day of air attacks.
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