Collision Course is an exclusive behind-the-scenes account of the 1999 war in Kosovo. Telling the inside story of a remarkable footrace between diplomacy and force, Norris provides a colorful portrait of the key characters in the conflict, such as NATO supreme allied commander Gen. Wesley Clark, Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, Russian president Boris Yeltsin, and the negotiators who ultimately brought the war to an end. Collision Course reaches a dramatic crescendo in replaying the war's final days, as a secret Russian plan to push its forces into Kosovo unfolded and took Western leaders by surprise. Carefully detailing the furious debate among NATO military officials about intercepting these forces amid speculation that President Yeltsin had lost control of Russia's large military machine, Norris makes clear that the United States and Russia came closer to exchanging fire in Kosovo than at any other time since the fall of the Iron Curtain. With vivid new detail, Norris covers the first day of NATO bombing to the insertion of peacekeepers into the province less than three months later. In this explosive period, Milosevic expelled hundreds of thousands of Kosovars from their
- ISBN10 6612408103
- ISBN13 9786612408106
- Publish Date 30 March 2005 (first published October 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint ABC-CLIO
- Format eBook
- Pages 360
- Language English