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===Bosnia and Herzegovina intervention===
{{Main|NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
[[File:F-16 deliberate force.JPG|thumb|upright=1.0|right|A USAF aircraft landing during [[Operation Deliberate Force]] after the [[Srebrenica massacre]]|alt=A fighter jet with AV marked on its tail takes off from a mountain runway.]]

The [[Bosnian War]] began in 1992, as a result of the [[breakup of Yugoslavia]]. The deteriorating situation led to [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 816]] on 9 October 1992, authorizing its member-states to enforce a previously declared [[no-fly zone]] under the [[United Nations Protection Force]] over central Bosnia and Herzegovina. NATO complied and started enforcing the ban on 12 April 1993 with [[Operation Deny Flight]]. From June 1993 until October 1996, [[Operation Sharp Guard]] added maritime enforcement of the [[arms embargo]] and [[economic sanctions]] against the [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]]. On 28 February 1994, NATO took its first wartime action by [[Banja Luka incident|shooting down four Bosnian Serb aircraft]] violating the no-fly zone.{{sfn|Zenko|2010|pp=133–134}}

On 10 and 11 April 1994, the United Nations Protection Force called in air strikes to protect the [[Goražde]] safe area, resulting in the bombing of a Bosnian Serb military command outpost near Goražde by two US [[General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon|F-16]] jets acting under NATO direction.{{sfn|Zenko|2010|p=134}} In retaliation, Serbs took 150&nbsp;U.N. personnel hostage on 14 April.<ref>{{citation|title=NATO Handbook: Evolution of the Conflict|publisher=NATO|url=http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb050102.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011107101023/http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb050102.htm|archive-date=7 November 2001 }}</ref><ref>UN Document [https://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/54/549 A/54/549], Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to General Assembly resolution 53/35: The fall of Srebrenica, un.org, {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912110426/http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A%2F54%2F549 |date=12 September 2009}}, accessed 25 April 2015.</ref> On 16 April a British [[British Aerospace Sea Harrier|Sea Harrier]] was shot down over Goražde by Serb forces.{{sfn|Bethlehem|Weller|1997|p=liiv}}

In August 1995, a two-week NATO bombing campaign, [[1995 NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina|Operation Deliberate Force]], began against the [[Army of the Republika Srpska]], after the [[Srebrenica massacre|Srebrenica genocide]].<ref name=zenko137>{{harvnb|Zenko|2010|pp=137–138}}</ref> Further NATO air strikes helped bring the [[Yugoslav Wars]] to an end, resulting in the [[Dayton Agreement]] in November 1995.<ref name=zenko137/> As part of this agreement, NATO deployed a UN-mandated peacekeeping force, under [[Operation Joint Endeavor]], named [[IFOR]]. Almost 60,000 NATO troops were joined by forces from non-NATO countries in this peacekeeping mission. This transitioned into the smaller [[SFOR]], which started with 32,000 troops initially and ran from December 1996 until December 2004, when operations were then passed onto the [[Operation Althea|European Union Force Althea]].{{sfn|Clausson|2006|pp=94–97}} Following the lead of its member states, NATO began to award a service medal, the [[NATO Medal]], for these operations.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/02/army_natomedal_022209w/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907225123/http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/02/army_natomedal_022209w/ |archive-date=7 September 2012 |url-status=dead |title=Thousands more now eligible for NATO Medal |work=[[Army Times]] |first=Jim |last=Tice |date=22 February 2009 |access-date=11 April 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>