In les than five years.

In les than five years, the United States has participated in three major military campaigns, each an apparent departure from then-prevailing use-of-force paradigms. NATO leadershiped the first, Operation Allied Force, in 1999 to conclusion abuse of the Kosovar Albanians on ethnic Serbs of the Yugoslav security forces and to force President Slobodan Milosovic back to the negotiating table after his breach of the Rambouillet accords. (1) Although humanitarian interventions had been rise on highed with United Nations Security Council approval (sometimes ex column facto) in the past, (2) this was the first actionsed by "normatively mature" states without a mandate and in