to hostilities, to separate the armed forces of the warring parties, to reshape the internal boundaries and to move the warring parties' heavy weapons into approved storage sites in Bosnia-Herzegovina. These goals were achieved by June 1996. Now, NATO leads a 20,000-strong peacekeeping mission, or Stabilisation Force (SFOR), in Bosnia and Herzegovina that maintains the necessary peaceful environment to enable the country to rebuild itself after years of devastation caused by war.
             In 1999, the alliance launched an 11-week campaign of air strikes involving more than 1,000 warplanes against Yugoslavia, which was at war with Kosovo. This mission was the largest military operation ever ca
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