The Bosnia War occurred prior to the Kosovo War. U.S. Troups, via NATO were more involved in the latter than the former. The Bosnian Conflict(a civil war), were approximately 200,000 were killed, was ended via the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995. Holbrook and Wes Clark were instrumental in writing up the treaty.
A Short History of the Bosnian conflict:
The Bosnian Herzegovinian declaration of sovereignty in October of 1991, was followed by a referendum for independence from Yugoslavia in February 1992 boycotted by the Bosnian Herzegovinian Serbs. Serbia and Bosnian Serbs responded shortly thereafter with armed attacks on Bosnian Herzegovinian Croats and Bosniaks aimed at partitioning the republic along ethnic lines and joining Serb held areas. The UNPROFOR (UN Protection Force) was deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in mid 1992. 1992 and 1993 saw the greatest bloodshed in Europe after 1945. In March 1994, Bosniaks and Croats reduced the number of warring factions from three to two by signing an agreement creating a joint Bosniak Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Each nation reported many casualties in the three sided conflict, in which the Bosniaks reported the highest number of deaths and casualties. However, the only case officially ruled by the U.N. Hague tribunal as genocide was the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. At the end of the war more than 200,000 had been killed and more than 2 million people fled their homes (including over 1 million to neighboring nations and the west).
On November 21, 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Alija Izetbegoviæ), Croatia (Franjo Tuðman), and Serbia (Slobodan Miloševiæ) signed a peace agreement that brought a halt to the three years of war in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the final agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995). The Dayton Agreement succeeded in ending the bloodshed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it institutionalized the division between the Bosnian Herzegovinian Muslim and Croat entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (51% of the territory), and the Bosnian Herzegovinian Serb entity Republika Srpska (49%).
The enforcement of the implementation of the Dayton Agreement was through a UN mandate using various multinational forces: NATO led IFOR (Implementation Force), which transitioned to the SFOR (Stabilisation Force) the next year, which in turn transitioned to the EU led EUFOR at end of 2004. The civil administration of Bosnia and Herzegovina is headed by the High Representative of the international community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnia
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The Kosovo Conflict was indeed related to Bosnia, but started in 1998. By April of 1999, the U.S. working under NATO intervened in what appeared to be a repeat action of Muslim Ethnic Cleansing. The fact that NATO intervened is one reason cited that "only" 7,000 10,000 were killed there instead of the 200,000 in Bosnia.
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A most excellent Post at Democratic Underground by "the Magistrate" which provides a real insight and a more detailed history on the origination of conflict in the Balkans.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1522940&mesg_id=1540550
