Word: operationalized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NATO's air attacks are therefore not responsible for the expulsion of Albanians from Kosovo but instead only caused a planned operation of ethnic cleansing to begin sooner rather than later. In any case, the NATO strikes could never be truly responsible; Serb troops, not stealth fighters, are forcing people...
Before a conflict, the military's job is to plan for the worst case. Yet obviously the minds behind Operation Allied Force didn't really think it would be as bad as this. After more than a week of NATO air raids, Kosovo was still hemorrhaging victims of horror. Ordered...
But just as many officials quietly admit that no one predicted Milosevic would be so ferocious so fast. The CIA knew as far back as last autumn that Belgrade was planning Operation Horseshoe: when spring melted the snows, the Serbs would move in their tanks and artillery to destroy the...
As White House aides realized that even stepped-up air assaults might not slow the Serb offensive quickly enough, a few began debating among themselves whether a ground attack should be considered. In public the Administration carefully stops short of categorically ruling it out. But the talk among policymakers has...
The U.S. decision to house its 20,000 refugees outside of U.S. borders at Guantanamo Bay has both symbolic and practical significance. On the symbolic front, says Branegan, "the administration wants to send a signal to both Congress and Milosevic that the evacuation and care of the refugees is only...