NATO forced Serb forces to withdraw in June 1999, and international peacekeepers, under NATO s leadership, occupied Kosovo.

NATO is responsible for the direction' of KFOR and the United Nations for control' of it.

And then that year, that year, 2008, this ISAF statement from Kabul, Afghanistan, September 17th General Stanley McChrystal, commander of international security assistance forces in Afghanistan, announced today ISAF will not conduct offensive military operations on the 21st of September.

These missing persons disappeared after the conflict, on NATO s and the United Nations watch.

But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.

In America and Europe at the moment, many people are calling for the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan.

The immediate topic on the agenda in Chicago next week will be getting NATO forces out of Afghanistan.

This will change very quickly, particularly given the possibility of NATO troop increases in Afghanistan.

Indeed, more than half of all NATO nations have had forces in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Kosovo, to a significant degree, owes its independence to a NATO military intervention undertaken in the name of human rights.

In 2004, Operation Althea took over from the NATO peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Each of the 26 NATO allies has troops in Afghanistan, as do 11 other countries.

In the 1960 s, France decided to pull out of the NATO integrated command and asked NATO forces to leave its territory.

By the time NATO forces finally took military action against the Serbs, 200,000 Bosnian Muslims had already been murdered.

Globalizing NATO

The Death of NATO

The Necessity of NATO

NATO after Riga

NATO s Dangerous Signals

The immediate topic on the agenda in Chicago next week will be getting NATO forces out of Afghanistan. But the longer term subject will be getting as many countries as possible into the global NATO security network.

Pakistan is hit hard by a wave of monstrous Taleban attacks, and in Afghanistan NATO troops die and are terribly injured in large numbers.

Indeed, NATO s withdrawal plan is likely to lead to a realignment of ethnic forces, and thus to greater volatility.

The Dutch were supposed to have been relieved by troops from a NATO partner in 2008. No one volunteered.

NATO After Istanbul

NATO Must Be Saved

NATO s Dangerous Afghan Dream

In America and Europe at the moment, many people are calling for the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan. We are told that NATO and the West cannot build a nation there and that the goals that have been set for establishing democracy and prosperity are unattainable.

This time, as the Afghan Taliban are expelled from Pakistan, NATO and Afghan forces must be ready to take them on.

France has sent troops, especially special forces, into Afghanistan to help the United States and NATO forces fight the remains of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

NATO expansion is off the table.

Sarkozy s Three Way NATO Bet

At the request of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, NATO decided to offer to help train Iraqi security forces.

Kosovo has been administered since 1999 by a United Nations mission guarded by NATO troops, although it remains formally a part of Serbia.

So, six years after NATO s intervention, Kosovo seems as far from stability and social peace as ever.

Khatami s successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, repeatedly condemned the presence of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and even worked to obstruct their efforts.

According to a recent BBC news investigation, however, UCK members abducted Serbs, Albanians, Roma, and others after NATO s arrival.

The bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 heavily damaged its economy, with serious consequences for neighboring countries.

Italy deployed troops in support of UN peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Mozambique, and East Timor and provides support for NATO and UN operations in Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania.

Re Setting the NATO Russia Relationship

NATO itself embodies that goal.

NATO has bet the alliance on Afghanistan.

The withdrawal of NATO forces before the job is done will leave India on the front lines to face the brunt of greater terror from the Afghanistan Pakistan belt.

In fact, NATO s retreat is expected to embolden jihadists in the region and beyond it to stage transnational attacks.

To make his request more palatable, Bakiyev announced that he was demanding that the United States close its airbase in Kyrgyzstan, which resupplies NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.

NATO soldiers die in vain.