How did the Kosovo crisis call the previously advocated approach into question?
While Warden’s approach certainly influenced the NATO intervention in Kosovo, it was not well suited to the reality of this conflict. According to the official doctrine of Western air forces, which was based upon the way aerial warfare had been conducted during the First Gulf War, massive air strikes had to be launched simultaneously against multiple strategic targets in order to inflict as much damage as possible. Some significant realities rendered this approach inappropriate. It was not suitable to make optimal use of power in Kosovo for two main reasons: first, there was strong international opposition to the NATO intervention, and secondly, Warden’s approach was not well suited to the nature of the conflict. International opposition to the NATO intervention was palpable. In many European NATO member countries, the majority of the population did not favour the use of air strikes in Serbia.6 Some governments, particularly those of Russia and China, had also expressed their oppositio
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