Word: combated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said American forces would not face a guerrilla army, Serbia did not house a sea of hostile population and the Serbian army had little combat experience...
...through Yugoslav defenses and bringing back proud videos of their kills. But on Saturday night, the antiseptic evaporated. Flying into one of the few hornet's nests of surface-to-air missile activity, a U.S. Stealth F-117A fighter ended up near Belgrade at that most dreaded of air-combat locations: the wrong place at the wrong time...
...Stealth bomber or the hulking, duct-taped $74 million B-52 pulverizing Serbian targets last week, the essential character of air warfare didn't change: air power, old or new, can always punish a foe but can rarely force him to change his mind. And like any kind of combat, it has mortal risks...
...each SA-6 missile battery--known as "the three fingers of death" for its trio of missiles--remains lethal. The missiles can be targeted by sight, which means the electronic emissions that would betray their positions will occur only just before launch. The last U.S. warplane previously downed in combat--Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 over Bosnia in 1995--was brought down using the technique...
...negotiating table, that he respected what he feared and would give in to force and threats. Milosevic learned something different: how to exploit the West's hesitation. Diplomats who thought that Dayton showed they "could work with him" discovered he rarely works well with anyone. He enjoyed his combat with Richard Holbrooke, whose status as special American envoy to the Balkans he considered worthy of attention. But he is said to detest Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as the archetype of all those trying to do in the Serbs. Pride drives the man, says a Western diplomat, "and rational analysis...