Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says NATO's actions "need to add up to some sort of sustainable end state"--something he believes is lacking. "They're counting on everything falling into place here," says Hillen, a former Army officer who served in the Gulf War. "Even if they prevail, the best result is a 10-to-12-year peacekeeping mission, serving between two parties whose ambitions are totally unrequited...
...fury of the initial strikes--the Air Force's use of two types of heavy bombers against Milosevic in the first night of attack last week is something that never happened in the Gulf War--was designed to force Milosevic to buckle. He hasn't, and as America is learning, the easy part is over...
Even military experts disagree on how dangerous these missions will be. "Plinking his tanks will be a piece of cake," predicts Merrill ("Tony") McPeak, the retired general who ran the Air Force during the Gulf War. "Plinking," perfected during the Gulf War, used the contrast between sun-warmed tanks and cooler desert sand to help pilots target the tanks with infrared equipment. How well that will work in the forested Balkans remains to be seen. But retired Navy Admiral Leighton Smith--who ordered NATO's first-ever bombing raid, against Bosnian Serb targets in 1994--thinks the tactic...
...Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and you've got a decent description of Bill Clinton's foreign policy. No endgame? No vision? No problem. Just push the button and let those smarties fly. Kubrick found Peter Sellers in Lolita; the U.S. found let-'er-fly diplomacy in the Gulf War. And you know what? They've both served us pretty darn well...
...iconic image of information-age combat dates from the Gulf War: the view from a smart bomb, homing in on an Iraqi bunker. But the Serbian forces in Yugoslavia have fielded a far more powerful electronic arsenal than the Iraqis did, and American military technology has been evolving since that time as well. If it comes to a fight, it will be the most sophisticated display of electronic combat the world has ever seen...