Word: operationalize
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On the eve of the biggest NATO operation in history, the French general charged with U.N. peacekeeping in Sarajevo was ordered back to Paris today after having condemned the Dayton peace agreement. "I refuse to have my soldiers condemned to watch an exodus of Serbs who will burn their houses...
Shalikashvili revealed that the mission could cost $2 billion -- not the initial White House estimate of $1.2 billion -- and that the total number of American ground troops in the region would be 32,000. About 3,500 reservists would also be called up. "Once you get away from the 20...
"The American Army is very much ready," reports TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce Van Voorst. "They have been ready for weeks, even months." The second squad of U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO "enabling force" of up to 2500 soldiers from various NATO countries, may be in Bosnia as early...
TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that timetable for the full deployment of troops may put a substantial number of American soldiers in the Balkans before the end of December: "First, there will be the signing of the peace agreement in Paris on the 14th of December. Then, within a...
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...