Between 1998 and 1999, a period marked by the Kosovo War and NATO's bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he was assigned as Political Advisor (POLAD) to the Commander of NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the one-year terms of US General Eric Shinseki and US General Montgomery Meigs, both of which were serving under the authority of US General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) from 1997 to 2000.