Word: nato
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...their 1,000-mile-long front lines for three years, and their field army of up to 80,000 is stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst at the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting outside Washington, says the Bosnian advantage in manpower and the Serbs' advantage in artillery create a "recipe for an indecisive, bloody, volatile stalemate...
...elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three years ago. Nevertheless, the Security Council, with the support of the U.S., imposed a mission that mixed peacekeeping with humanitarian aid. It ensured the present debacle by sending in totally inadequate forces, with NATO in an absurd supporting role...
...coming from the pilot-an extremely sensitive piece of information that was inadvertently revealed by General Ronald Fogleman, the Air Force Chief of Staff, when the general told reporters at a promotion ceremony last Monday that monitors had detected "intermittent" transmissions. "I was dumbfounded he said that," one enraged nato official later declared. "I mean, why not just announce to the bad guys, 'We think he's alive and kicking, and we hope we find him before...
...until Tuesday evening, nearly five days after the shoot-down, did NATO planes flying over the region finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes...
...jump jets-none was needed-as well as two Navy EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare planes, two Marine F/A-18D Hornets to provide air cover, and a pair of tank-killing Air Force A-10 Warthogs. The entire aerial armada of roughly 40 planes was choreographed from above by a nato awacs radar plane. "We had the whole shooting match up there," said Smith...