Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First Infantry Division are not ready for war is surprising only until one learns why: their commanders secretly rated the units unfit for combat because up to half of their troops--less than 1% of the active-duty military--were busy tending to peacekeeping duties in Bosnia and Kosovo...
Since the end of the cold war, the Pentagon has said it would need all its troops to meet its pledge to wage and win two "major theater wars" at once. But because it would take up to 90 days to move troops in Bosnia and Kosovo to a new conflict--longer than permitted under Pentagon guidelines--their commanders had no choice but to rank their units as unable to fight...
Rubin cited the NATO campaign in Kosovo, which he said the press insisted would be a failure...
...said the operation was a success, though, because it fulfilled the State Department's three principle goals: the expulsion of Serb forces from Kosovo, the installation of NATO forces in the region and the return of Kosovar refugees to their homeland...
Rubin also fielded questions about America's mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kosovo and a supposed chemical weapons factory in Khartoum...