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title: '"You are a NATO bombing target" English-language leaflet text addressed to named Yugoslav Army units, Operation Allied Force'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kosovo-nato-leaflet-you-are-a-bombing-target-1999/
description: Two-panel leaflet image, picture above text. The upper panel is a photograph of Yugoslav Army tanks overprinted with a white circular crosshair carrying
section: Collection
---

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[!["You are a NATO bombing target" English-language, 1999 US leaflet: Two-panel leaflet image, picture above text](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kosovo-nato-leaflet-you-are-a-bombing-target-1999.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/kosovo-nato-leaflet-you-are-a-bombing-target-1999.jpg)

# "You are a NATO bombing target" English-language leaflet text addressed to named Yugoslav Army units, Operation Allied Force

Two-panel leaflet image, picture above text. The upper panel is a photograph of Yugoslav Army tanks overprinted with a white circular crosshair carrying the NATO compass star; the lower panel addresses four named VJ units and states 'You are a NATO bombing target' and that bombing will continue until they return to their garrisons. The tell is the targeting reticle laid over the readers' own armour together with a named-unit address, which makes the threat personal and attaches one stated way out (return to garrison) to it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Full record

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

## Text on the object

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

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

```
Attention:
78th Motorized Brigade, 211th Armor Brigade,
52nd and 78th Mixed Artillery, and attached units:

You are a NATO bombing target.

You will continue to be bombed until you return to your garrisons. Return while you still can.
[code at lower left:] [illegible]
```

Read from a 477 px image; the small code at lower left is not legible. The photograph carries no caption.

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