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This paper examines the 1999 humanitarian intervention undertaken by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo and the wider ideological and historical background to the Kosovo crisis. It establishes three postulates discussing the strategic and moral approach of the intervention in Kosovo. The paper ends by highlighting two important wider implications of the Kosovo campaign for Singapore. The author states that it is in Singapore's interests to contribute to the development of objective criteria for determining legally defensible reasons for humanitarian interventions.