VISUAL ACTIVITY Ethnic Strife in Kosovo In 1999, American troops joined a NATO peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Here, an ethnic Albanian boy walks beside Specialist Brent Baldwin as the soldier patrols the town of Gnjilane in southeast Kosovo in May 2000. AP Photo. READING THE IMAGE: What attitude about the U.S. soldiers does this boy display? What did the presence of American troops mean to people like him? CONNECTIONS: Where else did President Clinton deploy military force in the 1990s?