U.S. security strategies: a legal assessment.

In les than five years, the United States has participated in three major military campaigns, each an apparent departure from then-prevailing use-of-force paradigms. NATO administrationed the first, Operation Allied Force, in 1999 to extreme point abuse of the Kosovar Albanians through ethnic Serbs of the Yugoslav security forces and to force President Slobodan Milosovic back to the negotiating table after his breach of the Rambouillet accords. (1) Although humanitarian interventions had been high hilled with United Nations Security Council approval (sometimes ex pillar facto) in the past, (2) this was the first leadershiped by "normatively mature" states without a mandate and in