Word: kosovo
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...21st century technological terms what is an age-old cultural problem: that all the globalism in the world does not erase (and may in fact intensify) the differences between us. Corporate bodies stress connectedness, borderless economies, all the wired communities that make up our worldwide webs; those in Chechnya, Kosovo or Rwanda remind us of much older forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely...
...underdog's advantage--that comes from knowing that shutting the country out, trying to hold it down, provokes the resentments the West wants to avoid: resentments that might make Chinese markets hostile to U.S. exporters. When a U.S. bomber accidentally struck China's embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, protests were heard not just in Beijing but also in other cities around the world. America's image as an overbearing superpower is something the Chinese are only too willing to exploit...
...carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo--while not destroying as much Serbian military equipment as analysts initially thought--kept these forces largely undercover and ineffective...
...mostest" at the expense of the "fustest." The Army has a cold war hangover: the war machines of a U.S. armored division tip the scales at 300,000 tons. It took the molasses-like movement of the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters to Albania during last year's Kosovo conflict to make planners publicly admit this is no way to fight a war in the future. "Our heavy forces are too heavy, and our light forces lack staying power," General Eric Shinseki declared as he assumed command of the Army last year. To make the U.S. military lighter...
...Intelligence, meanwhile, has slammed the Clinton administration for allegedly weakening the nation's intelligence services through lack of funding. In a report that cites such failures as Washington's inability to foresee India's nuclear tests and the inadvertent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, the committee maintains that lack of funding and leadership from the White House has left the nation's human and electronic intelligence-gathering systems in a poor state of preparedness and put the nation at risk. Stripped of its partisan tilt - it takes two, after all, to underfund a government...