Word: kosovo
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...national interest." The Howard government committed troops to lead the U.N. peacekeeping effort in East Timor (about 1,000 remain there). But it sees Labor's faith in the U.N. as unrealistic, given the world body's failure to enforce its resolutions on Iraq or bring peace to Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia or Sudan. In a post-9/11 world of terrorism, black-market nukes and bioweapons, the U.S. is the best hope for Australian security - and the world's - says Downer. America's "unrivaled intelligence and military resources provide the most potent weaponry to disrupt and destroy the terrorists. Through...
...campaign against Serbia, and again last year by leading efforts to block the dispatch of air-defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable whiff of irony around French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO...
...fight threats far away from home, they land on our doorstep. We are in Afghanistan to prevent that country from becoming a safe haven for terrorists again. We used to defend our borders; now we have to project stability. That's what we're doing in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Bosnia. NATO has neither the means nor the ambition to be the world's gendarmes, but it will act if it sees that action is in the interests of the alliance. NATO has a lot on its plate. Let's not have unrest if an alliance of 26 nations starts...
...said to revere his father, and to have been struck by a black-and-white wartime photograph of his dad in a steel helmet that reveals their physical similarities: the same square jaw, steely eyes and prominent nose. And after his own experience sending troops into action during the Kosovo war, the first time since World War II that German soldiers were sent abroad, Schröder felt a new bond with his father, according to his biographer, Jürgen Hogrefe. Schröder "is more serious than he has ever been before," says Hogrefe. "He is ready...
...impressive. NATO will provide AWACS aircraft to monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military--nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians on Chechen rebels...