NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina

NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Part of the Bosnian War
	; A Grumman EA-6B Prowler aircraft flying an I-FOR mission
Date	16 July 1992 – 2 December 2004
Location	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Result	End of the Bosnian War
Belligerents
NATO Netherlands ; Norway ; Denmark ; Germany ; Luxembourg ; United States ; Belgium ; Spain ; United Kingdom ; Italy ; Canada ; Turkey ; Portugal ; France ; UN Protection Force France ; United Kingdom ; India ; Sweden ; Canada ; Belgium ; Western European Union (1993–1996) ; Supported Countries: ; Croatia ; Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia	Republika Srpska ; Republic of Serbian Krajina ; Supporting Countries: FR Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders
/ Willy Claes ; / Manfred Wörner ; / Wesley Clark ; / Leighton Smith ; / Jeremy Boorda ; / Stuart Peach ; / Michael E. Ryan ; / Rupert Smith ; / Satish Nambiar ; / Lars-Eric Wahlgren ; / Bernard Janvier ; / Dick Applegate ; Franjo Tuđman ; Gojko Šušak ; Janko Bobetko ; Alija Izetbegović ; Haris Silajdžić ; Sefer Halilović ; Rasim Delić ; Mate Boban ; Milivoj Petković ; Slobodan Praljak	Radovan Karadžić ; Biljana Plavšić ; Ratko Mladić ; Dragomir Milošević ; Milan Martić ; Milan Babić ; Goran Hadžić ; Slobodan Milošević ; Vojislav Koštunica; Zoran Đinđić
Strength
60,000 soldiers	50,000–100,000 soldiers

The NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of actions undertaken by NATO whose stated aim was to establish long-term peace during and after the Bosnian War. NATO's intervention began as largely political and symbolic, but gradually expanded to include large-scale air operations and the deployment of approximately 60,000 soldiers of the Implementation Force.

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