Word: kosovo
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...have voted twice to use force, and I’m not afraid to use force,” she said, referring to measures dealing with Kosovo and following Sept. 11. “But to me, it’s a last resort, not a first resort, and I need to have answers to questions first...
...more, newer smart bombs are far cheaper and easier to use, so there would be a lot more of them raining down on Iraqi targets. In 1991's Desert Storm, precision-guided munitions accounted for 7% of the bombs used. That share jumped to 30% in 1999's Kosovo conflict and to 60% in Afghanistan last year. Pentagon officials say they would aim for 100% in the opening days of any war with Iraq...
...producing 2,000 kits monthly, and will soon increase production. McPeak says the biggest problem is that intelligence has not kept pace with the precision of the system. Too often JDAMs hit the right coordinates but the wrong targets. That happened in the system's debut during the 1999 Kosovo campaign, when a B-2 dropped three JDAMs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The U.S. bombed the site thinking it was a Yugoslav military office building. Similar debacles have occurred in Afghanistan, where a JDAM, apparently loaded with improper coordinates, last October missed its target, a helicopter, and instead...
...recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. The exhibit constitutes a representative selection of the works of Paris-based photographer Sophie Ristelhueber. The photographs, in turn, exhibit striking images of the destruction and scarring caused by various wars of recent history, including the Gulf War, the conflict in Kosovo, and the civil war in Lebanon...
...this assertion is by no means only based on Ristelhueber's art; Rather, she makes her view of the world patently clear by coupling a passage from Thucydides with a series of photographs from the war in Kosovo. The passage Ristelhueber quotes represents Thucydides' idea that conflict is inevitable and that people will by nature always abuse other people for their own gain to whatever extent they can. Her use of this passage is telling evidence of the general theme in Ristelhueber's work of a resigned, almost defeatist approach to the horrible things we humans do to each other...