Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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indicative of increased allied pressure on the very center, the central nerve system of the regime that controls military and security forces.
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In Bosnia, for instance, they play a crucial role in setting up these joint commissions that bring Army people and local people together to talk about governance issues, providing humanitarian aid.
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I'm not sure that the fact that the launch facility is primitive makes the missiles any less threatening.
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If there are plans for an evacuation, they would be run by Australia, which of course is the nearest country and has taken on responsibility for conducting any sort of an evacuation that's necessary, ... But we hope it won't be necessary.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
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This is a very high-priority program. We are working very hard ... to get the president the information he needs from the technical side to make a decision sometime this summer.
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The KLA has already agreed not to attack the Serb troops as they're leaving.
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The FEST Team, which stands for Foreign Emergency Security Team, has also arrived. And that involves State Department personnel, FBI and Justice Department personnel, and others, about 50 people,
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If you look at our deployments today, under 5,000 people in Bosnia and about 5,000 people, under 6,000 people in Kosovo, it adds up to about 11,000 people, 10,000 or 11,000 people deployed in the Balkans out of an Army that's, what, 480,000, 485,000 people. It's a relatively small percentage
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In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history
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By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.
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But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.
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But I am very much aware, as are all the pilots and all the operators, that the enemy is trying to its level best to hear what we're saying to glean information from it.
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In terms of NEO (non-combatant evacuation operations), obviously if the Indonesian army performs its job then there shouldn't be need for an evacuation,