Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan would leave the Bosnian Muslims with Sarajevo, the central core of Bosnia, the Bihac pocket and the area near Krajina. Gorazde, the remaining "safe area" in the east that NATO pledged itself to protect three weeks ago, would probably be allowed to pass into the hands of the Bosnian Serbs. The Muslims would be offered military training and arms, as well as a significant commitment of U.S. ground troops and air power to protect their boundaries from Serb encroachment. The ground troops, up to 25,000 of them, would be "peace enforcers" with liberal rules of engagement. They would...
...truth, I will admit that I have always put a lot of faith in the people who lead. The leaders who had assumed the role of the political prophets from my childhood, however, had nothing to say. No one was creating direction. President Clinton vacillated between bellicose threats of NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank under the pressure of the Serbian army. The Western world deplored the actions of the Serbian army as barbaric, but it could not formulate a coherent policy. As the despotic, maniacal Serbian General Ratko Mladic surrounds, strangles and slaughters one U.N. "safe area...
...Croatian onslaught created a rift among NATO allies, who had only recently come together with a new, tougher policy toward the war in Bosnia. Earlier in the week the alliance had announced it would apply to all Bosnian "safe havens" the same rules it had already laid down for Gorazde--calling for pre-emptive air strikes if the areas are seriously threatened. By Thursday, the Serbs had apparently heeded the warning and pulled back...
...missiles per year; a move on our part to continue missile testing could sacrifice the future of this program and place at risk the hard-won U.S.-Russian candor now prevalent in nuclear politics, More importantly, it could give new fuel to the extremist view in Russia that NATO's hegemony of Eastern Europe will bring western military installations--stockpiled with freshly tested warheads--unprecedentedly and threateningly close to Moscow...
...future, we must play a much larger role now in working towards that end. We need to move from the ideology of Cold War polarization towards a new polycentric internationalism; our strategic leadership--for which we have both a stockpile of potential resources and our successful history of NATO helmsmanship to draw on--will be crucial in making this transition...