ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the implications of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) performance in Bosnia for the Alliance's new security role in Europe. It describes NATO's adaptation to the post Cold War European security environment in an attempt to provide a yardstick by which to measure actual behavior against expressed principles and real capabilities. The chapter discusses NATO's operational involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, focusing in particular on the latter part of 1994. NATO adapted to the post Cold War environment by developing a "contingency paradigm" for military preparedness, while also retaining a residual mobilization capacity. The UN, on November 10, 1994, accused Bosnian Muslims of shelling their own people in Sarajevo to elicit Western sympathy for NATO airstrikes in support of the Bosnian government. For NATO and the Western powers, the key concern was against whom to intervene.
