Unfortunately, when he took over Unprofor in late January 1995, it was doing none of these.
Dutch troops made up the unprofor contingent that essentially handed Srebrenica over to Mladic.
For a NATO force minus Americans would not be just another UNPROFOR.
But the real problem, he implies, was that Unprofor could have done little even if he had seen it coming.
Furthermore, NATO's forces have more robust weapons and rules of engagement than those of UNPROFOR ever had.
Instead, the Bosnian Serb forces ignored the Security Council, pushed aside the unprofor troops, and assessed correctly that airpower would not be used to stop them.
The pathetic convoy from Zagreb has crossed the battle lines under the auspices of Unprofor, the UN peacekeeping force, as will the Muslims in the opposite direction.
"After Unprofor approval," says Van der Wind, "the fuel was delivered in Bratunac [the Bosnian Serb HQ outside Srebrenica] after the arrival of a logistical convoy".
This is because of their unhappy experience with UNPROFOR, the British-and French-led United Nations force that tried to protect aid convoys from 1992 to 1995.
Sir: The fact that the British Army is soon to be the biggest single contributor to Unprofor in Bosnia-Herzegovina says more about American weakness than British determination.
There, he spoke with many Muslim refugees who expressed a shocking level of hatred and rage toward the West and especially toward the U.N.'s peacekeeping force, UNPROFOR, which they claim did nothing to stop the Serbs.
