"Don't wait for me!" Serbian-language leaflet 03-Q-09-L004, Operation Allied Force
Two-sided Serbian-language leaflet, front above back. The front shows the line 'Don't wait for me!' (Serbian: Ne cekaj za mene!); the back is a warning to Yugoslav Army (VJ) forces that NATO forces 'always see you', that those who stay in Kosovo will meet death and those who abandon their unit and equipment and leave Kosovo may live. The tell is the two-door choice, stay and be killed or desert, which presents desertion as the only survivable option and leaves out every other possibility.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 1999
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- NATO air campaign psychological operations; American-printed leaflet addressed to Yugoslav Army soldiers (Operation Allied Force)
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
- Internet Archive (Hollen Song collection), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, 17 U.S.C. 105)
NATO / US psychological operations leaflet 03-Q-09-L004, 1999. Scan via Internet Archive, uploader nathanielsong2004.
