III.NATO Forces

NATO Commander:Gen.Wesley Clarck

Country	Aircraft	CV	CG	DD	FF	SSN	Other
Belgium Canada Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Turkey United Kingdom United States TOTAL	10 18 9 87 15 - 51 39 22 7 3 8 29 38 730 1066	- - - 1 - - - - - - - - - - 1 2	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 2	- - - - - 1 - - - - - - - 1 2 4	- - - 3 1 - - 1 1 - - 1 1 2 1 11	- - - 1 - - - - 1 - - - - 1 2 5	- - - 2 - - - - 1 - - - - 2 5 10

CV= Aircraft Carrier
CG= Cruiser
DD= Destroyer
FF= Frigate
SSN= Submarine

The Kosovo Liberation Army was fighting on its own on the ground against superior Serb forces. The KLA had an estimated 15,000 men all lightly armed. They would bring in supplies from Albania under NATO air cover. Towards the end of the conflict NATO and the KLA worked together on targeting Serb troops with information provided by KLA forces on the ground.

During the first few days NATO's arsenal was much smaller, around 200 aircraft.BGM-109Tomahawks and other cruise missiles played a key role in the opening days taking out fixed Serb infrastructure. Afterwards aircraft strikes were very conservative because the Serb Defenses posed a serious threat. NATO averaged around 150 sorties a day in the first few weeks, but it steadily increased as time went by. The size of NATO's forces also increased to bring more pressure on Milosevich. NATO leadership also took it easy on Serbia believing minor damage would get Belgrade to realize that it had to stop the killings in Kosovo. Bridges, for example, were only attacked about 1 month into the conflict, whereas in Iraq bridges were taken out during the first days of attack. Another big difference as to why Yugoslavia lasted 79 days is NATO only averaged around 400 sorties compared to 2,500 in Iraq. What I'm getting at is Serbia felt only a small percentage of NATO's wrath, otherwise the conflict would have been over in a few hours.