US military involvement in Serbia

[poisonpill98]

I know I posted this in the general forum but apparently am not getting any replies, so maybe this will help.

Mods: if you feel that either one of these threads need to be deleted, pls feel free to do so. So here is the content:

Folks, need your help here.

A friend of mine is working on a paper about Yugoslavia and Milosovich, and she needs some better info on U.S. military presence during or after the whole "ethnic cleansing" in the late 1990's.

Did we have troops (both conventional and SpecOps) over there...that's both "officially" and "unofficially"?

For the life of me, I'm thinking that we didn't officially send any troops over there, b/c I remember gawking at the news and wondering how in the world could we not and why are we not doing anything about such an event taking place AND it being smack in EUROPE AND that region being one of the most charged and volatile areas of that continent...the Balkans!

We might have had some SpecOps over there that would never see the daylight of the news to the general populus. Now THAT would make a lot of sense, but if so, can anyone shed some light on this! It would greatly help.

I tried Googling it, but can't come up with anything!

So if anyone has any info, your help is greatly appreciated! BTW, the timeline she's looking at is from the end of the 1990's to say, around 2005 (which is quite a few years post the event, but it would kind of make sense).

A final word: I guess I'm now putting this in the "Navy" forum mainly b/c I'm thinking that I REALLY do not recall any US troops "officially" being there, so I'm thinking maybe there might have been SEALs?

I just can't fathom how the US would NOT intervene (in SOME way, shape, or form) in an event like this.

 

[kato]

The US was heavily involved in both the Bosnian and Croatian wars in 1993-95 and the Kosovo war in 1995... quite officially and quite well-represented in the media back then too.

Keywords Operation Deny Flight, Operation Deliberate Force, Operation Provide Promise etc pp as well as UNPROFOR, IFOR, SFOR for Bosnia; Operation Allied Force and KFOR for Kosovo...

And as for intervention in such events, one word: Rwanda. And let's better not mention what the US was doing in the Croatian theater back then either.

 

[RANXEROX]

USA Army in Ex YUgoslavia

I will briefly try to explain what was the role of the U.S. Army from 1990-1999 and its involvement in the former Yugoslavia
In Bosnia, there was no commitment of ground troops USA army, (except in KFOR) in Croatia during Operation Storm-Army USA is giving one, a smaller type of logistics, CTS had a much greater involvement of private military companies whose names I do not remember ..
The largest U.S. military engagement took place during 1999 in Operation Merciful Angel, Serbia was bombed by the USAF for 72 days and from Albania were involved small groups of special forces which are supposed to provide reconnaissance and logistical support to a terrorist organization by the name of the KLA .