Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council finally passed a Franco-British resolution demanding that Milosevic halt his offensive and begin negotiations or face the possibility of armed intervention. The attack plan calls for U.S. cruise missiles to be launched first against Serb military targets in Kosovo; then, if needed, NATO would mount a wider air campaign outside Kosovo against security facilities in Serbia...
...bombing Milosevic into submission won't be easy. Russia voted for the U.N. resolution but still adamantly opposes action. France wants a second resolution to approve actual air strikes. Clinton may have to decide whether to go ahead with only fractured allied support. For a President facing possible impeachment hearings, that's a big load to take on. "He won't be able to escape the accusation that he's attacking to divert attention from the scandal," admits an Administration official...
...Congress that they must be funded well enough to fight and win two Gulf War-size conflicts at once. They will point out (surprisingly, one might think, with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
...there is no shortage of gold braid: each Army division currently has 30 generals--up from 14 in World War II. The Air Force boasts a general for every 23 airplanes (down from 244 planes), and the Navy has an admiral for every 1.6 ships (down from 130 ships...
...that may be needed eventually but are not needed at the moment. The Navy wants to spend more than $2 billion a copy for a new class of 30 attack submarines even as it scraps dozens of existing attack subs, many designed to stay at sea another decade. The Air Force is dispatching hundreds of fully functional warplanes to its Arizona boneyard while it pays $188 million apiece for 339 single-seat F-22 warplanes...