"Over 13,000 Yugoslavian service members have already, 1999 US leaflet: Two-sided English-language leaflet, front above back

"Over 13,000 Yugoslavian service members have already left" English-language leaflet (Attention VJ Forces), Operation Allied Force

Two-sided English-language leaflet, front above back. The front shows an A-10 attack aircraft firing a missile, a tank-and-crosshair emblem and the slogan 'Don't wait for me!'; the back, headed 'Attention VJ Forces!', says over 13,000 Yugoslav service members have already left the armed forces and offers the same choice, remain and face death or leave. The tells are the unsourced head-count presented as a crowd already moving (what others have done), the threat of attack 'from every direction', and the two-door close 'The choice is yours'.

Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

Bandwagon Fear appeal False dilemma

Date: 1999
Period: Contemporary
Made by: NATO air campaign psychological operations (Operation Allied Force); NATO named at lower right of the leaflet, American-printed leaflet series

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Leaflet
Issuer type: Military
Regime: Clinton Administration
Leader: Bill Clinton
Audience: Enemy forces
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Theme: War and the military
Event: Kosovo War
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons (credited to NATO, nato.int Kosovo leaflets page), retrieved October 12, 2026
Rights: Public domain (Commons PD-USGov tag; NATO / US armed-forces psychological operations leaflet)
NATO psychological operations leaflet, English version, 1999. Via Wikimedia Commons (File:PSYOPs Leaflet, Kosovo War (B9905e-g).jpg).

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

[Front:]
Don't wait for me!

[Back:]
Attention VJ Forces!

Over 13,000 Yugoslavian service members have already left the armed forces because they can no longer follow illegal orders in Milosevic's war against civilians in Kosovo.

Remain in Kosovo and face certain death, or leave your unit and your equipment, and get out of Kosovo now. If you choose to stay, NATO will relentlessly attack you from every direction.

The choice is yours.

NATO
[code at lower left of back, small and soft:] 03-Q-09-L004

Read from a 500 px image; the code at lower left is soft and its reading is the best match to the other versions of this leaflet.