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The Kosovo War has been seen by many as the first humanitarian war, a war fought for the furtherance of human rights alone, rather than for the traditional objective of national interest.

War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age by Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen. (p.79)

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