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Strategic bombing campaigns are initiated by the US to pressure enemy regime to do something: withdraw from a place or stop a campaign. It is never done to overthrow the government. Milosevic was toppled a year after by the bulldozer revolution which can be considered as a color revolution and the Serbian army stance of not to defend him if anything happens.
Now what I'm hearing related to Iran, that only the US has the bunker buster munitions, and I'm getting the impression that this could be a one strike against certain targets to destroy nuclear capabilities Iran supposedly have. This reminds me more like the strike against Libya of 1986.
By the time Reagan was inaugurated in 1981 Libya was viewed as an enemy by Washington, infallible USian intel services claimed they wanted nukes. They started to support Chad rebel forces in areas Qadaffi's forces occupied. Then punctuated military operations were propped up from 1985. After these proved to be failures the US govt was itching for an excuse to finally act overtly end send their own military into action, but Libya wasn't a pariah state,
Then on April 5 of 1986 a club back then called a discotechque was bombed in Berlin, with a pack of Americans inside. Infallible USian intel services claimed it was Libya, and ten days after the attack the US initiated airstikes against two targets, Qaddaffi's tent and house essentially this was an assassination attempt, killing some civilians (among them kids). They put it down as great success, and that they sent a message.
Da book puts this action into the "Combat operations alongside local insurgent forces" category.