Samenvatting

In this first issue of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies the Bosnian Experience is dicussed. The soldiers themselves - especially the Dutch ones - take centre stage. What did they do, or what did they do not? How did they and their home front experience it all? The contributions are the result of empirical studies and therefore based on sytematically gathered data and real-life observations during UNPROFOR and IFOR. These observations are put into perspective using theoretical models which enable comparisons to be made and reflection to occur