Kosovo Security

• Despite Security Push, Rioters Torch Embassy in Belgrade ; Kosovo Support Costs U.S.

A torched U.S. Embassy building in Belgrade became the latest target of Serbian anger yesterday, as the United States faced growing consequences of its support for Kosovo's independence. Despite billions of dollars spent on security upgrades in the decade since al Qaeda bombed two embassies in Africa - including $1 billion budgeted for 2008 - rioters managed to break into an outer embassy building in Belgrade and set it ablaze to cheers from rioting mobs outside.

• The Washington Times
• February 22, 2008

• Civil-military responses to security challenges in peace operations: ten lessons from Kosovo.

The complex environments in which peace operations have to function often pose difficult internal security challenges, such as the demilitarization of...

• Global Governance
• Vol. 8 Nbr. 4, October 2002

• Books Reviews: 1. Descent into Darkness 2. The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security 3. Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women 4. Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond 5. Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

2001] BOOK REVIEWS 241 DESCENT INTO DARKNESS PEARL HARBOR, 1941 A NAVY DIVER'S MEMOIR1 REVIEWED BY MAJOR JANE-ELLEN BAGWELL2 Viewing the USS Arizona ...

• Military Law Review
• Nbr. 167, March 2001

• U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Holds a Media Availability Following the Security Council Meeting On Kosovo

SECRETARY GENERAL BAN HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY FOLLOWING THE SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON KOSOVO, AS RELEASED BY THE U.N. FEBRUARY 18, 20...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 24, 2009

• Ambassador Jackie Wolcott Sanders Holds a Media Availability On the New Security Council Members, Pakistan, and Kosovo

AMBASSADOR SANDERS HOLDS A MEDIA AVAILABILITY ON THE NEW SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, PAKISTAN, AND KOSOVO, NEW YORK CITY, AS RELEASED BY THE...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 22, 2009

• Video From Nato Tv Available On Thenewsmarket.Com: Interview with Comm Kfor Major General Erhard Buhler

NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Contents from NATO TV at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/ StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=35ef9a1e-fc00-4d49-8a0c-446c7aab6efd NATO's KFOR today reached a major milestone in its successful mission in Kosovo by implementing a further reduction in the size of its force given the improving security situation. On this occasion natochannel.tv speaks with Comm KFOR Major General Erhard Buhler.

• U.S. Newswire
• February 28, 2011

• Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Delivers Remarks at a United Nations Security Council Session On the Situation in Kosovo, As Released by the State Department

AMBASSADOR ALEJANDRO D. WOLFF, DEPUTY U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED NATIONS, DELIVERS REMARKS AT A UNITED NATIONS SECURITY C...

• Political Transcript Wire
• July 08, 2010

• Dream of U.S. Citizenship Remainslegislation Awaiting Obama Gives Ex- B-N Widow Renewed Hope

BLOOMINGTON - A former Bloomington woman who is a native of Kosovo and the widow of a private security contractor killed in Iraq in 2005 will be able to pursue American citizenship if President Barack Obama signs legislation the Senate passed this week to do away with the "widow penalty. Diana Engstrom faced deportation because the death of her husband, Todd, occurred less than two years after they were married and before immigration officials acted on her application for permanent residency and citizenship.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 29, 2009

• Secretary-general leadership across the United Nations and NATO: Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, and Operation Allied Force.

... of NATO's 1999 Operation Allied Force in Kosovo. The findings show the important roles played and ... for considering the relative security roles to be played by the UN and NATO in the futur...

• Global Governance
• Vol. 16 Nbr. 4, October 2010

• Nato 2008: Is the Alliance Ready to Face New Challenges? Expectations From Bucharest

To name a few of them, obviously running the ISAF [International Security Assistance Force] operation in Afghanistan; KFOR [Kosovo Forces] in Kosovo, having a presence in Bosnia still; Active Endeavor which is a NATO counterterrorism operation in the Mediterranean; delivering humanitarian relief supplies after the earthquake in Pakistan [and] after Hurricane Katrina here in the United States, [and] transporting African Union soldiers to Darfur; so NATO's role has transformed considerably. If you look at the operations that I mentioned, there's a great diversity in the ways in which NATO was handling these challenges, whether it is humanitarian, delivery of humanitarian relief, airlift, standard traditional peacekeeping operations, or very high intensity operations in combat such as in ...

• DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management
• Vol. 30 Nbr. 3, September 2008