During the spring of 1999, AMRAAMs saw their main combat action during Operation Allied Force, the Kosovo bombing campaign.

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

The Department of Defense investigated the award of the Bronze Star Medal ( BSM ) by the USAF to some 185 individuals after operations in Kosovo in 1999.

Conventional warhead versions were first fired in combat by the RN in 1999, during the Kosovo War.

Kosovo, administrated by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo since 1999, declared independence in 2008.

* Since 1999: KFOR in Kosovo and Macedonia

* CNN – NATO air attack shifts, aims at violence inside Kosovo – 27 March 1999

** KFOR, from 1999 ( Kosovo ) – 1, 596 out of 12, 990 soldiers from 32 countries

* 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force ( KFor ) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Due to the 1997 unrest in Albania and the Kosovo War in 1998 – 1999 ethnic Albanian traffickers enjoyed a competitive advantage, which has been eroding as the region stabilises.

However, growth in 1999 was held down by the severe regional economic dislocations caused by the Kosovo war.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

* 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

In June 1999, after enduring three months of heavy NATO bombing, the Milosevic regime withdrew from Kosovo.

During autumn 1999, following the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing campaign, Đukanović ( who by now firmly held power in Montenegro as Bulatović was completely squeezed out ) drafted a document called Platforma za redefiniciju odnosa Crne Gore i Srbije ( A platform for redefinition of relations within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ) calling for major changes in the division of governing responsibilities within FR Yugoslavia though still officially seeing Montenegro within a joint state with Serbia.

The conflict escalated from 1998 to 1999 and became a civil war, known as the Kosovo War.

In June 1999, after the NATO bombings ended, NATO and other troops, entered the province and organized with the controversial Albanian separatist Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ) paramilitaries, to maintain order.

* Lincoln, Bruce W. ( 1999 ) Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War.

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

However the start of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War led to Sudan and Ethiopia put this conflict between them and normalizing their relations by November 1999 when president Omar Hassan al-Bashir made a formal visit to Addis Ababa.

In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government defined a new basis for German foreign policy by taking a full part in the decisions surrounding the NATO war against Yugoslavia and by sending German troops into combat for the first time since World War II.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia ( 1999 )

* Winter, J. M. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914 – 1919 ( 1999 )

Abidjan was is in the process of regaining Niger's port trade, following the disruption of the Ivorian Civil War, beginning in 1999.

This was followed by Cryptonomicon in 1999, a novel concerned with concepts ranging from computing and Alan Turing's research into codebreaking and cryptography during the Second World War at Bletchley Park, to a modern attempt to set up a data haven.

* 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

Post-independence, it has fought three wars against India, several border skirmishes with Afghanistan and against the Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979, and an extended border skirmish with India in 1999 ( Kargil War ) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist operations along the border areas of Afghanistan.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

It was not until 1999 that the French National Assembly recognised the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 )— previously a " public order operation "— as a " war " proper.

Between 1999 and 2003, a multidisciplinary team led by Sileshi Semaw discovered bones and teeth of nine A. ramidus individuals at As Duma in the Gona Western Margin of Ethiopia's Afar Region.

Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).

After 6. 2 % growth in 1997, GDP grew a substantial 8. 3 % in 1999, led by exports.

On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

The industrial sector contributed an estimated 32. 2 percent to the country's GDP in 1999, led by mining ( ferronickel, gold, and silver ) and the manufacture of goods for export to the United States.

Gailey led the team to two playoff appearances with a 10 – 6 record in 1998 and an NFC East championship, but the Cowboys were defeated in the playoffs by the Arizona Cardinals 20-7 ; after an 8 – 8 season in 1999 ( during which Irvin suffered a career-ending spinal injury in a loss to the Philadelphia Eagles ) ending in another playoff loss ( this time to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10 ), he was fired and became the first Cowboys coach who did not take the team to a Super Bowl.

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

In 1998 and 1999, there was a homebrew competition known as " Presence of Mind " ( POM ), an N64 demo competition led by dextrose. com.

Intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998 ; the civil war led to a 28 % drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999.

Jensen ( 1999 ) argues that the defeat of 1898 led many military officers to abandon the liberalism that had been strong in the officer corps and turn to the right.

A positive outcome led to the establishment of a devolved Scottish Parliament in 1999.

At the 2004 election, the National Front led by Abdullah had a massive victory, virtually wiping out the PAS and Keadilan, although the DAP recovered the seats it had lost in 1999.

More recently ( 1999 ), a merging of the Gf-Gc theory of Cattell and Horn with Carroll's Three-Stratum theory has led to the Cattell – Horn – Carroll theory.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

Unfortunately, these policies led Japan into deflation on numerous occasions between 1999 and 2004.

The increased economic growth also led to a turn-around in government finances, with the budget moving from a cash deficit of 3. 7 % of GDP in 1999 to 0. 1 % surplus in 2000.

In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices, but since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured, and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

He led the Dolphins to five division titles, 10 playoff appearances, and Super Bowl XIX before retiring following the 1999 season.

He led the Official Opposition until 1993 and was spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Trade until 1999.

It has been demonstrated that neurogenesis can sometimes occur in the adult vertebrate brain, a finding that led to controversy in 1999.