Word: airs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...air defenses been crippled, the pilot could have flown closer to that target, seen it was civilian and aborted the strike and the resulting global horror it provoked. A fellow F-16 pilot, from the 555th Fighter Squadron at Aviano, call sign "Buster," was frustrated by the snafu. "The last thing we want to do," the major says, "is help Milosevic do his job." But mixing Serbian troops with Albanian civilians has been part of Milosevic's strategy. Buster says he has seen "truck, truck, tractor, military, military, bus" convoys. "They're using Albanians as shields," he says, "and that...
...says. "We thought they'd only have petrol for a month, but now it turns out they have a capacity far greater than that." And the pulverizing attacks against Serbia's command-and-control network may not be as successful as Pentagon targeteers think. After the Gulf War, the Air Force found out that Iraq's command network "had not collapsed," despite 500 strikes, and that "the system turned out to be more redundant and more able to reconstitute itself" than the Pentagon thought...
...fast-deploying force is the 82nd Airborne's ready brigade, which is set to move within 37 hours. But the Army couldn't deploy such a unit to Kosovo for action. In recent years, the Army scrapped the aging but light Sheridan tank it once used, and canceled the air-droppable Advanced Gun System that was to have replaced it. That means the 82nd has to seize and hold a major airfield within four hours of parachuting in, to allow C-17s carrying M-1 tanks to land. The Army's latest study on the subject isn't much...
...many of his basic rules--dogma certified not just in his thesis but in most post-Vietnam strategic thinking. And as the campaign plays out, demanding more and more of NATO's men and munitions, the general may reflect on some other words from that 1975 thesis: "Reliance on air and naval forces is unlikely to prove wholly satisfactory...
...Enrico the old cola warrior is rewriting the rules of engagement. When you see Pepsi advertising on the air, it will still be in Coke's face, although perhaps not as relentlessly as before. Take its "Joy of Cola" campaign, in which the cherubic Hallie Eisenberg lip-synchs voice-overs from celebrities--including Marlon Brando as Don Corleone--to demand Pepsi over you-know-what. Yet it's a much broader, less edgy approach than the company's Generation Next theme, whose message excluded much of the audience. The company has also launched a new beverage, Pepsi One, to keep...