Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is only the start of a three-stage campaign that could last several weeks. As allied bombs continue to fall on the Yugoslav air-defense network, NATO will increasingly go after the tanks, artillery and armored vehicles the Serbs are using to demolish villages in Kosovo. In Phase Two, the allied pilots will focus on hitting the Serb forces spreading carnage inside Kosovo and staging just north of the province...
...seemed for a brief moment like it was going to be such an antiseptic war: invisible fighters and bombers sneaking through Yugoslav defenses and bringing back proud videos of their kills. But on Saturday night, the antiseptic evaporated. Flying into one of the few hornet's nests of surface-to-air missile activity, a U.S. Stealth F-117A fighter ended up near Belgrade at that most dreaded of air-combat locations: the wrong place at the wrong time...
During the weekend, Operation Allied Force pivoted from blasting the Serbs' air-defense network to the dirtier--and far more deadly--mission of hunting down and destroying Yugoslav tanks, artillery and other small military assets. Immediately, the odds began to shift against NATO's pilots...
...humiliating defeat would have been greeted with derision in Belgrade. No one's laughing now. In just over a year, the K.L.A. has transformed itself from a disorganized network of bandits into a presentable, if limited, guerrilla army. That army is a fraction of the size of the Yugoslav army, but it has all the classic guerrilla advantages: the loyalty of the population, an intimate knowledge of the terrain and a brutality that won its members the label of "terrorists" a year ago. Already they have killed hundreds of Serb security forces in ambushes and sniper attacks. By last week...
...others, however, if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refuses to withdraw troops and NATO, facing another credibility gap, sends in ground support, the real events will happen trench by trench. As field commanders on all sides make seemingly insignificant day to day decisions--where to move a group of civilians, which targets in a town will be hit first, which town to move to next--they will come to define the course of the war more definitely than the press releases from home...