Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NATO Defense ministers unanimously endorsed the Bosnian "implementation force," known as IFOR, and dubbed the mission Operation Joint Endeavor. General George Joulwan, NATO's European commander, said most of the 60,000 heavily armed troops from 15 different countries would be in the Balkans within a month of the signing of the Balkan peace agreement in Paris, now scheduled for mid-December...
...address, Forbes also advocated a return to the gold standard, as well as the elimination of the Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the arena of foreign policy, Forbes stated his support for arming the Bosnian Muslims and enforcing resolutions with NATO air power...
...this straight: Bosnia is not a vital interest; it's an "important" interest. NATO is a vital interest. NATO is mixed up in Bosnia, so to defend our vital interest in NATO we have to fight in Bosnia. By this logic, it would make no difference whether Bosnia were an "important" interest or a "somewhat important" or an "utterly trivial" interest; we'd still have to send troops there because of our desire to preserve NATO. Bacon's explanation skips over the really hard question raised by Perry's comment: Is the defense of merely "important" interests worth the lives...
Military. The peace accord will include complex rules to be enforced by an Implementation Force (I-FOR) of 60,000 NATO troops, some of whom will begin arriving in Bosnia within days of an agreement. I-FOR will be instructed to separate the warring armies in Bosnia along 4-km-wide cease-fire zones. Simultaneously, warring parties will begin to reveal to I-FOR the location of all minefields and booby traps, vacate territory and withdraw their heavy weapons to cantonment areas. Each side will furnish maps depicting the positions of all fortifications, ammunition dumps, command headquarters, communications networks, antiaircraft...
...Bosnia this week: "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be." The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force...