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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that easy for NATO to "intensify" the air-only war as it promises. Over considerable resistance, Clinton barely talked NATO into approving plans for a naval embargo to cut off oil supplies to Serbia, and no one wants to hurt Western-leaning Montenegro, where the main Yugoslav port is, in the process. The low-risk, high-altitude bombing cannot grow markedly more effective unless the allies are willing to accept more casualties--theirs and ours. The Apache gunships are dribbling into Albania to begin their closer-to-the-ground war against nearly 400 Serbian tanks and armored personnel carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: It's Flight Or Fight | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...began in a pavement parking lot at the Naval Reserve Center in Quincy, where they said good-bye to families before 21 months of intensive training. The officers in training lived at the site and saw their families only infrequently during that time...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New, More Diverse Class of HUPD Officers Graduates, Part of Riley's Vision for Dept. | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

...basic rules--dogma certified not just in his thesis but in most post-Vietnam strategic thinking. And as the campaign plays out, demanding more and more of NATO's men and munitions, the general may reflect on some other words from that 1975 thesis: "Reliance on air and naval forces is unlikely to prove wholly satisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: How We Fight | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...rush in food, which the refugees were consuming at the rate of about 250 tons a day. About 120,000 people were to be convoyed or flown out of the Balkans for temporary resettlement around the world; the U.S. first agreed to house 20,000 refugees at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but then backed off when refugee organizations complained that the facility was too far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Options: Inside Clinton's War | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...only does Boston host the country's oldest military post--it's got the world's oldest warship as well. A hundred and seventy-five feet long, with copper and brass work done by the Paul Revere, the USS Constitution is actually still under U.S. naval commission. But anyone can tour it for free, with uniformed sailors who can answer questions. They even fire off the ship's 42 guns twice a day, at 8 a.m. and sunset. Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown. (617) 242-5670. T-stop: Haymarket (then take the No. 92 or 93 bus to the Navy Yard...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, | Title: a boston childhood | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

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