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...Rhodes scholar who fought in Vietnam and served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1997 to 2000, Clark said the U.S. should finish routing al-Qaeda before taking on Iraq and criticized Bush for being too dismissive of nonwar options there. Commander of NATO's war in Kosovo in 1999, Clark, who juggled the interests of 19 member nations, also took issue with what he sees as Bush's go-it-alone style...
...that the international body does not view "no-fly" zone confrontations as a violation of the resolution. "Let me say that I don't think the Council will say that this is in contravention of the resolution that was recently passed," Annan told reporters Tuesday during a visit to Kosovo...
...enemies outside Europe - but it still lacks the means to do so. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has been cajoling members to pony up the military hardware needed to put the relevance question to rest. The alliance has already lost most of its credibility with the U.S. Starting in Kosovo in 1999, America chose not to hamper its strength by leashing it to NATO's creaky war-by-committee procedures. At the same time, many Europeans harbor concerns that a bulked-up NATO would stymie the E.U.'s attempts to act independently of Washington on security and foreign policy issues...
...Hungarian parliament's Defense Committee and a member of the opposition Fidesz Party. He ticks off the achievements of the previous government, which was led by Fidesz: it increased defense spending by .1% of GDP during each of the past three years; fielded troops for multinational peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and Bosnia; passed a strategic defense-reform plan that promises to professionalize the army, improve language skills and upgrade equipment. The new government has vowed to press ahead with these reforms, and pledged a 19% increase in the defense budget for next year, bringing it to $1.3 billion. The military...
...images from the developing world. But the must-see show is Alexandra Boulat's, at the Galerie Debelleyme. The daughter of the distinguished Life and Paris Match photographer Pierre Boulat, Alexandra has made her own name with impassioned, poignant work in the war zones of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Photographs from her just-published book Eclats de Guerre, (Editions des Syrtes) are an example of photo-journalism at its best, when the eye is an adjunct of the heart