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...central irony to NATO's dilemma is that its official host, the Macedonian government, is considerably less enthusiastic about the troop presence than are its enemies. Saso Ordanoski, editor of the weekly newsmagazine Forum, says many Macedonian Slavs feel cheated by NATO. "At first they were calling [the N.L.A.] murderers and terrorists," he says. "Now they're sending their highest emissaries to discuss voluntarily giving up their weapons." Nowhere is that sense of betrayal stronger, perhaps, than among the couple dozen Macedonian Slavs manning a roadblock on the road from Skopje north to the border with Kosovo - the main line...
NATO on Friday begins its most dangerous Balkan mission yet. But the danger facing the Western alliance in Macedonia is less physical than political. Some 400 British troops are due to be deployed in the former Yugoslav nation in advance of an eventual 3,500-troop contingent whose mission, innocuously dubbed "Operation Essential Harvest," involves collecting and destroying weapons voluntarily tendered by ethnic-Albanian guerrillas. They're not there to disarm anyone, NATO spokesmen insist, and they'll stay only 30 days. If the guerrillas choose to hang onto their weapons and the fighting starts up again, the Western troops...
...American global military presence far surpasses that of any other nation with more than 250,000 troops on foreign soil and about 50,000 personnel at sea in foreign waters. Here's a rundown of the largest U.S. overseas troop deployments...
...mannered and polite. By baseball game, you’d hardly know ’em. But their outburst prompts a precious episode: a love-hate triangle between the Marlboro Mob, a lone Angels fan—and the Boy Scouts. It’s Jamboree time, and the troops are out in force, seas of brown in orange stands. The Marlboro Mob moves from chanting Oriole and Angel numbers to chanting troop numbers...
...Come September, Rumsfeld will probably try to navigate some middle ground between the status-quo and force reduction, find some way to reduce the perceived strategic demands of the current world, and put out a plaintive recommendation for more troop and weapons-system cuts that Congress will declare dead before it ever hits the Hill...