Truck and taxi drivers, shopkeepers and warehouse-owners all did well out of the Kosovo war too.
Wesley Clark served as supreme allied commander of NATO from 1997 to 2000 in the Kosovo war.
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During the Kosovo war, America sent to the Mediterranean the only aircraft carrier permanently assigned to the Pacific.
Roma groups want international support for these people, whom they call the forgotten victims of the Kosovo war.
Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, the place has been under the jurisdiction of the United Nations.
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But how did the arch-moralist of the Kosovo war become the West's arch-pragmatist in the aftermath of the Chechen war?
And has the Kosovo war made even a distant settlement more likely?
It is not surprising, either, that the Kosovo war ended in a way that broadly suited the interests of all the powerful players involved.
Agani himself was killed (probably by Mr Milosevic's police) soon after the Kosovo war broke out last year, but arguably his axiom holds good.
Macedonia's economy has already been knocked askew by the Kosovo war.
It was an open secret, after the Kosovo war, that American commanders were disappointed by their allies' lack of precision-guided weapons, electronic-warfare equipment and secure communications.
In the prime minister's mind, the strongest evidence that Labour meant what it said about human rights was his own comportment during last year's Kosovo war.
Whoever wins will replace Milan Milutinovic, the last ally of Mr Milosevic still in power, who is indicted alongside him for alleged war crimes committed during the Kosovo war.
Certainly, after the Kosovo war, the Turks and Mr Demirel sense a new parity, at least, with what they see as the old Orthodox axis to which Russia, Greece and Serbia belong.
The resolution was agreed on by leading democracies and Russia in Cologne, Germany, as a path to ending the 77-day-old Kosovo war and allowing the return of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees.
When it is technically possible for a target identified by a drone or satellite to be struck ten minutes later, the idea of having to spend several days winning approval from the leaders of 19 countries (as during the Kosovo war) is even more unattractive to military commanders.
There is hopeful talk in western capitals of making more of new friendships with a younger generation of politicians that were forged or consolidated in the heat of the Kosovo war: for instance, Pandeli Majko and Ljupcho Georgievski, respective prime ministers of Albania and Macedonia, and Nadezhda Mihailova, Bulgaria's foreign minister.
If the Gulf was the first television war, Kosovo is the first Web war.
NATO's recent summit in Washington, the war in Kosovo and the post-war challenge of once and for all de-balkanising the Balkans could soon cast Europe in a more impressive light.
Serbia, which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999, does not accept its independence.
NATO's primacy, and Russia's virtual exclusion, in the struggle for influence over post-war Kosovo.
Serbia - which lost control of Kosovo after a war in 1999 - does not accept its independence.
Later, as Kosovo's war loomed, some Kosovar leaders openly said they preferred to have Mr Milosevic in Belgrade rather than any softer Serb politician: the tyrant's ugliness lent weight to their cause.
NATO's opening position is that it must lead and dominate a post-war occupation force in Kosovo, while Serbia (and its Russian friends) insist, for a start, that those who ran the air war would be the least suitable keepers of Kosovo's peace.
Many still regard Bill Clinton as a hero for saving Kosovars during the war in Kosovo.
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