Word: nato
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This case has been made here before. Yet the staff, from the unique vantage of their armchairs, take the recent failure of NATO air strikes to deter the Serbs form overrunning Gorazde as a sign that more intervention is needed, not less. Rather than follow this recipe for disaster, US forces ought to pull out of the region while they...
Perhaps realizing the obligation it has to the city and its people, NATO has engaged in several minor airstrikes in an attempt to deter the Serbs form taking the city. These apparently have failed. Rather than being cowed, the Serbs have stepped up the offensive...
...burden of decision lies with NATO again. Yet the most powerful military alliance in the world shows no signs of being ready to actually prevent the Serbs form taking Gorazde. Rather, the focus is still on somehow convincing the Serbs to come back to the negotiating table. The flaw in this strategy is manifest: why should the Serbs negotiate when they can take their prize at very low cost? The West still insists on treating the Serbs as wayward youths rather than the war criminals they...
Serious change will come hard because the academies have such a cherished tradition. John Galvin, a retired four-star general and top NATO commander, still wears the golden ring with a ruby-red stone that he designed for his class of 1954. "This place sets the standards for the Army for duty, honor, country," he said in his West Point office above the Hudson River, where he teaches political science. To survive in the future, the academies will have to set standards for efficiency and relevance as well...
...Know the function of the U.N., NATO, Amnesty International...