4 minutes agoFirst KFOR commander in Kosovo, Mike Jackson, dies, brought Serb forces back
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(2 years ago)Mike Jackson, the senior British military officer in the rank of general, who in 1999 had commanded NATO troops entering Kosovo after 78 days of bombing of Serb targets died Tuesday. Jackson, who preceded the same year on behalf of NATO, has negotiated with Serbian military leaders the surrender of Yugoslavia [...]
Mike Jackson, the senior British military officer in the rank of general, who in 1999 had commanded NATO troops entering Kosovo after 78 days of bombing of Serb targets died Tuesday.
Jackson, who in advance that year, on behalf of NATO, has negotiated with Serbian soldiers the surrender of Yugoslavia to Kumanovo, has served in Kosovo for four months.
Jackson had become international news on June 12th 1999, when he had rejected the order of Wesley Clark NATO Forces Commander Europe to attack Russian troops who were deployed at Pristina Airport. I'm not going to start the Third World War” Jackson Clarke reportedly said at the time.
The famous British general during his term had negotiated the deilitarisation of the KLAão, from which the Kosovo Defence Corps had emerged.
In a reaction, the British Embassy in Pristina has expressed regret over the death of General Sir Mike Jackson.
The British Embassy has published the biography of General Jackson, his schooling and experience in the Intelligence Corps.
Total embassy delivery:
We regret the loss of General Sir Mike Jackson
General Sir Mike KCB CBE DSO was born in 1944 and educated in Stamford School, RMA Sandhurst and Birmingham University. Ordered by Sanhurst at the Intelligence Corps in December 1963, he studied a continuing degree in Russian Studies from 1964 to 1967.
After graduation, he spent two years in office in the Parachuta Regiment and was later transferred from the Intelligence Corps in 1970. During the early 1970 ' s, he served in Northern Ireland and with TA in Scotland.
He attended Staff College in 1976, after which he spent two years as Chief of Staff of the Berlin Infantry Brigade. He then commanded a parachute company for two years, once more in Northern Ireland.
After a six - month course at the Latimer National Defence College in 1981, he joined the Steering Staff at Stiff College. His two-and-a-half-year tour of Camberley included a 10-week connection to the Defence Ministry during Falklands.
