Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue the order to deploy what is called the enabling force, an advance communications-and-logistics team of about 1,000 soldiers, around 200 of them American. NATO would then start sending in the main I-FOR the day after the peace is signed in Paris. NATO's southern command would set up a forward headquarters in Sarajevo, and six days later I-FOR would begin separating the Bosnian, Croat and Serb armies. I-FOR would not, however, be able to complete its move into the country until after the New Year...
...early record--bobbing and weaving on China, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia--don't inspire confidence. Clinton's attention has been episodic and frequently prompted by domestic politics. Neither Secretary of State Warren Christopher nor National Security Advisor Anthony Lake convey to the country that they are firmly in command even as the President is busy elsewhere. All the same, Clinton's foreign policy deserves more respect than it usually receives. He normalized ties with Vietnam, pushed the NAFTA and GATT trade agreements through Congress, propped up the Middle East peace process, deployed forces to Haiti--with almost no casualties...
...Bosnia along 4-km-wide cease-fire zones. Simultaneously, warring parties will begin to reveal to I-FOR the location of all minefields and booby traps, vacate territory and withdraw their heavy weapons to cantonment areas. Each side will furnish maps depicting the positions of all fortifications, ammunition dumps, command headquarters, communications networks, antiaircraft artillery and radars. Once in place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this...
...concerned about the long term ability of Milosevic or Karadzic to maintain the peace. "Milosevic can deliver the votes from the senior leaders, but the question is whether they can deliver all the troops," says Waller. "There are a lot of Bosnian Serb soldiers under a very loose command structure. There are freelancers and plenty of just plain armed thugs. And that's a worry to the Pentagon." The other worry, Waller reports, is that President Clinton's belief that one year of peacekeeping will solidify the peace is unrealistic. "The U.S. military doesn't think that the Bosnian Serbs...
...Secretary of Defense William Perry and Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev agreed on a unique command structure that would allow Russian troops to serve as part of a prospective peacekeeping force for Bosnia. The trick? Instead of placing the 1,000 infantry troops under NATO command, an option unacceptable to Russia after more than four decades of cold war opposition to the alliance, the Russian soldiers would be under American command. However, American orders would be subject to approval by Russian subordinates. A nato diplomat described the unusual arrangement as "a fig leaf...