ABSTRACT
The decreasing effectiveness of Western military interventions had a number of negative consequences not only for the West, but for the entire international community as well. The most obvious one was the exceedingly high, particularly in the light of achieved results, costs in terms of life and materials of Western involvement in stabilising international security. More complex would be the assessment of the effectiveness of the Western involvement in Bosnia-Herzegovina in a broader context, including the efforts preceding Operation Deliberate Force, made both through North Atlantic Treaty Organisationand the UN framework. The attractiveness of such a model stems from the fact that it allows use of the technological superiority of Western states over the enemy and guarantees a high degree of force protection for the intervening forces, thereby redistributing the risk associated with the use of armed force to others.
