 Under the leadership of José María Aznar, the Spanish Government had decided that the Spanish Armed Forces would be a part of the coalition enacting the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.Out of 16 NATO member states at the time, 13 took part in the intervention.The member states that did not partake in the bombings were Iceland, which maintained no standing army; Luxemburg with a very small standing army; and Greece as the only major member state which expressed strong opposition to the intervention.