– Rob Scott, Sunday Post Newspaper review, October 1999
“I must say I found the book an extra-ordinary record of events and a real tour de force”
– Chris Horrocks, Soldier Magazine
“It reads well, covers the ground and unlike some distinguished and recently published autobiographies by politicians, it tells the real story.”
– Paul Beaver, Jane’s Information Group spokesman
“In Operation Deliberate Force, Tim Ripley has assembled through a remarkably extensive set of candid interviews with central military and political players in the Bosnian tragedy, a deeply-depressing catalogue of the new limits to diplomacy and military strategy … that many of those involved might prefer was not told.”
– Nik Gowing (Diplomatic Editor, Channel Four News 1989-96 – see Nik’s Foreword to the book
Reviews In Full
• Air Forces Monthly
Reviewed by Alan Dawes in Air Forces Monthly Magazine, January 2000 edition
Posted February 11th, 2000. Editor, Professor Martin Edmonds
20th November 1999
Review by Mark Thompson in the Journal Survival, published by the
International Institute of Strategic Studies
• The Gunner (The journal of the Royal Artillery)
by Alan Brigadier Dick Applegate
Comments on Operation Deliberate Force by Military personnel
Paul Beaver, spokesman for Jane’s Defence and chairman of the Independent Defence Media Association, London
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