03.11.2005

Speech by Principal Deputy HR Larry Butler to NATO Senior Officers: “Post-Conflict Reconstruction is a Joint Political-Military Undertaking”

Ten years ago next month, 60,000 NATO-led troops began deploying across Bosnia and Herzegovina. IFOR entered the country in force and in good order. Within days of its arrival, military bridges had been erected at strategic river crossings, helicopters dominated the skyline; and tanks and other fighting vehicles had taken up advance positions along [...]