Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Air Force officers were bragging that air power by itself had triumphed for the first time in history, Army officers were quick to note that air power had failed abjectly in attaining the war's key goal--protecting ethnic Albanians from Serbian violence. Says William Odom, a retired Army three-star: "This war didn't do anything to vindicate air power. It didn't stop the ethnic cleansing, and it didn't remove Milosevic." In fact, a ground movement--an offensive by the resurgent Kosovo Liberation Army in the past two weeks--played a key role in upping...
Victory? The word is technically correct. The Serbs will be out of Kosovo, NATO in. The alliance can be proud it hung together, stuck to its demands and lost not a single soldier in combat--an amazing, unprecedented zero. The West stood up against the obscene barbarism of "ethnic cleansing," drawing moral lines for the world. Serbia's war machine has been mutilated. Air power vindicated itself...
...Milosevic?s supporters have a vested interest in believing their own propaganda, the fact is they weren?t entirely defeated. After all, the peace deal codified in last week?s U.N. Security Council resolution involves considerable compromise on both sides, and NATO?s fundamental war aim, which was protecting ethnic Albanians from persecution in Kosovo, has demonstrably failed -- witness the streams of refugees -- and will take years to be reversed...
...where each side started -- and not at their latest stated aim -- that a real measure of victory or loss can be made. NATO launched its bombs and rockets after Milosevic rejected the take-it-or-leave-it proposals put to him at Rambouillet in March and launched his vicious ethnic cleansing campaign. Rambouillet envisaged the transfer of control over Kosovo to NATO authority, and estimated that the territory?s future status would be decided in a referendum held within three years ?- which would have allowed the Kosovo Liberation Army to realize its goal of independence from Yugoslavia...
...People who enjoyed products from abroad...got into more of the contemporary shopping and shied away from the imported ethnic handcrafted items," Giarrusso says...