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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Palyed with in ''Operation Allied Force'' when it turned out that NATO airstrikes did actually minimal damage to the Serbian military itself, though considerable infrastructural and strategic damage (to say nothing of relatively high collateral).
** Played straight with ''Operation Storm'' and the Croat and Bosnian offensives that ended the war.
* [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]]: Regarding the region's violent history and knowing, especially with the advantage of hindsight, the atrocities committed. Even the [[Police Are Useless|UN]] and [[What the Hell, Hero?|NATO]] [[Black and Grey Morality|can't be considered as morally white]]. The rulings of the International Tribunal of Justice for the former Yugoslavia may squarely place most of the blame on the Milošević's and Karadzić's regimes, but keep in mind that the ICTY are contested by the Serb side (see below.)
* [[Death World]]: Most of eastern Bosnia during that time.
* [[Eagle Squadron]]: Croats, Bosnian Muslims, and Serbs all had foreigners head over to help them out. As a general rule, Bosnia received volunteers from the Muslim Arab world, Bosnian Serbs from Serbia Greece and Russia, and Croatia from Western European countries.
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* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Media on all sides used this to get their respective population in a nationalistic frenzy.
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Professional_Resources MPRI] being the most infamous one.
* [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]]: Sadly committed by all sides. What made thus war especially horrifying were [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_Bosnian_War#Houses_and_camps rape camps].
* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: During Operation Allied Force, Serbia had used many unconventional tactics to match with a technologically advanced foe. Among things they used were burning hay to fool IR guided weapons, adding more reflective surfaces to farm equipment to fool radar and radar-guided weapons (such as Laser-Guided Bombs), then there was the incident of the F-117 being shot down. This was done by using a radar that operated at long wavelengths, allowing the aircraft to be detected for brief periods of time, but it was enough to shoot the aircraft down.
** Otherwise subverted, as the simple fact that the Serbians had to adopt such measures to compete with NATO shows.
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* [[Vetinari Job Security]]: Once Tito died, the Clock started ticking on when this whole can of worms would open.
* [[War for Fun And Profit]]: The various paramilitary organizations and war profiteers like Arkan and Captain Dragan.
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* [[Won the War Lost The Peace]]: Despite winning independence, a significant number of people in the new countries feel they're worse off than before the war. The reasons are mostly economical (high unemployment and corruption) rather than political (though a number of people are nostalgic for the old country - a phenomenon known as Yugo-nostalgia). See the character page for details.
* [[The Woobie]]: Let's say that this is a conflict where every side sees themselves as the victims of the other.
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