"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
- Date
- 1999
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- NATO air campaign psychological operations (Operation Allied Force); NATO compass-star emblem on 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), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD-USGov tag; NATO / US armed-forces psychological operations leaflet)
NATO psychological operations leaflet, Operation Allied Force, 1999. Via Wikimedia Commons (File:Nato flyer.jpg).
Text on the object
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.
