ar against Iraq in August 1990 and the use of technology of warfare in it can be applied also in the latest case of intervention in Kosova, where NATO applied American technology in informing.There are many articles and books opposing and justifying NATO military intervention, but I have compared two articles from the opposing sides that have a different argument about this matter. The former NATO Secretary General Dr. Javier Solana wrote one of the articles, which appeared on NATO’s online library called Why the Allies Stand Firm in the Defense of Values. The other article, Some Ethical Aspects of NATO’s Intervention In Kosovo is written by Jan Oberg, the director of the TFF (Transitional Foundation for Peace and Future Research) as well as the head of its Conflict-Mitigation team to ex-Yugoslavia and Georgia and the article is posted on the official web site of Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Solana starts his article, published on 16th of April 1999, by presenting how the events in Kosovo changed NATO’s focus and made it “decide whether the notion of common values is only rhetorical flourish or whether it carries real meaning” (1). He names three major reasons why NATO had to go ahead with the strikes, starting with “First and foremost, we acted to stop the humanitarian tragedy”(1). Solana presents the possibility that if “NATO decided to just look the other way”(1), that would mean tolerating “the barbaric ethnic cleansing” in the middle of Europe. Giving Bosnia as an example of NATO’s late intervention, he states, “We would not repeat that mistake”(1). Secondly, Solana argues, “all other means – political and economic have been exhausted before reverted to military action”(1). He continues to explain that in peace negotiations in Rambouillet (France), Slobodan Milosevic proved that he was not interested in political solution,...
