Three weeks of air strikes shattered the claimed invincibility of the Serb army
Evidence
In September 1995, the NATO powers tried air strikes. After three weeks of very selective bombing, the siege of Sarajevo was broken and NATO became concerned that further strikes would utterly destroy the Serb army in Bosnia. For three years, experts had declared the Serb army to be invincible and impervious to air power. After three weeks of air strikes, NATO feared that the same Serb army would collapse, causing a “destabilizing” shift in the balance of power. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 328
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the Armada material: expert claims of military invincibility collapsing under actual engagement — decisive-battle mythology undone by evidence.