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After the 1999 Kosovo conflict, nato analyzed exhaustively its failures in information handling. Serb women were pictured dancing on the wing of a downed F-117 Stealth bomber before the U.S. Air Force even admitted its loss. It took military commanders four days to unravel why an Albanian refugee convoy at Djakovica was mistakenly bombed. nato learned painfully that speed and candor are crucial. But the Afghan campaign shows how lessons learned can be lessons ignored. Governments, too, abandon humility and lose their memories...
There are wars of choice, and there are wars of necessity. Wars of choice--Vietnam, Kosovo, even the Gulf War--are fought for reasons of principle, ideology, geopolitics or sometimes pure humanitarianism. Passivity might cost us in the long run. But we do not have...
...Mark Thompson: That's a perpetual mission. It's funny, though, because we're hearing the same sorts of aches and pains that we heard at just about the same point in the Kosovo campaign - "Air power won't work; air power won't work." And then, after 78 days...
...course Afghanistan is not Kosovo. Milosevic was running a modern state, and therefore had a lot more assets that could be bombed. The Taliban don't have much to bomb, so the Pentagon knows that air power can't do everything. Air power is not nearly as effective against a movement as it is against a government. You kill a regular army by destroying one in three of its tanks - it's like a bear: when you knock out its hindquarters, it's no longer a threat. But the Taliban is more like a bacterial infection. It's still there...