When NATO bombed Yugoslavia’s capitol Belgrade in 1999 in the final phase of the Balkan wars it was aerial “shock and awe” before it became an American political cliché. Critical national media and government ministries clustered downtown were pummeled for two months straight. Seventeen years later a number of these bombed-out buildings still stand with tacit permanence near Belgrade’s revitalizing central waterfront exactly as they were left after the war ended.