ABSTRACT
The breakup of Yugoslavia was one of the most violent and costly events subsequent to the end of the Cold War. From April 1992 until December 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina were engulfed in violence as the forces of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bosnian Serb Army killed over 10,000 civilians during the siege of Sarajevo from April 1993 to February 1996. The Bosnia intervention began as a no fly zone but quickly developed into a case study in the limits of air power, a disappointing story of ill-suited tools applied to a large and urgent humanitarian task. One of the lessons learnt from the no fly zone in Bosnia was that was not preceded by a war, so the integrated air defense systems were intact. Enforcing aircraft did not at the outset suppress the air defense systems but rather attempted to fly between the envelopes of the surface-to-air missiles and ground fire.
