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...other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...kind" is the operative force in the disastrous conflicts. Enmity between Serbs and Croats, Christians and Muslims, makes each group feel that the other must be destroyed so that what belongs to "us" can be taken back from "them." to us, it seems clear that the Serbian aggressors are in the wrong--but might not this conviction stem from guilt over America's own attempted to subsume minorities into a larger whole...
...case, how much force would be required and how many casualties might be expected depends heavily on what political objectives the allies set. Even the minimum objective -- securing the area around the airport so that relief flights can land safely -- might require taking out Serbian gun positions and tanks in the surrounding hills. Guesses of the force needed range from 45,000 to 100,000. French Colonel Jean-Louis Dufour, author of a book on the gulf war, thinks that it would take 75,000 troops grouped in three contingents, each including two tank regiments and two artillery regiments...
...enough food to do more than help Sarajevo's 400,000 residents survive. A genuine end to the - siege might require opening an overland corridor from Split. That would be a still more difficult task if relief convoys negotiating shell-pocked roads also had to shoot their way past Serbian roadblocks...
Even a decisive relief of Sarajevo while Serbian aggression raged on elsewhere in Bosnia would be no great victory. In Washington there is talk of establishing protected islands of security throughout the country. The extreme option would be reconquest of Bosnian territory already taken over by the Serbs. Some British sources estimate that would require at least 300,000 troops and up to a year of intense battle. "In the gulf war, the allies' high-tech stuff worked well," says Michael Dewar, deputy director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies. But in mountain guerrilla warfare, "smart weapons...