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...Memories have consequences. For 10 years Europeans have been promising they would increase the size and quality of their armed forces. They have scarcely tried. In Bosnia and in Kosovo, it was American military might that ended nasty little European wars. As George Robertson, the Scottish Secretary-General of NATO, said recently, "American critics of Europe's military incapability are right." This is not to say the Europeans should match the U.S. militarily or even that they could. It is now an axiom that the overwhelming power of the American military machine has reshaped international affairs. Paul Kennedy of Yale...
...Peacekeeping is one of them. "The Americans," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "hate peacekeeping, and they're not very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after...
...International War Crimes Tribunal, established by the U.N. in 1993, has never seen a case of this magnitude. The tribunal has accused Milosevic of primary responsibility for the deaths of 200,000 people in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo during wars in the 1990s. Milosevic has declared his intention to call officials from the highest levels of international politics to testify, including former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
Prior to assuming his current post in October 2000, Flowers also held commands in Operation Desert Storm, Somalia, and Bosnia...
...reasoning, including ex-U.S. President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, but the judges must decide if their testimony is likely to be relevant. Milosevic faces a total of 66 counts on three indictments for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, and for crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo, each carrying a possible life sentence. The trial could go on for two years...