Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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Everybody now believes that that force is probably too small and that a larger force will be required to go in as a peacekeeping force.
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We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.
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My expectation is that based on the amount of chemical weapons in the pit and then what we've been told about wind patterns on that day and the disposition of forces ... there could be a very large number of troops included in a possible cloud area.
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We don't know whether it'll be twice as large or three times as large or 50 percent as large as we initially planned.
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We're going to need a larger KFOR, and we want it deployed to Macedonia as quickly as possible. Should there be a peace agreement quickly, as we hope, we need a force that's ready to go in and help the refugees get back as the Serb forces pull out.
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He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations' embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the military equipment he would like to buy.
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He is no longer a threat to his neighbors and is not seen as a threat to his neighbors. That's largely because of the containment that we have carried out.
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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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It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.
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The Air Force is in the process of taking down all its tents at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia because the airmen are moving into dormitories, and therefore these tents could possibly be available for use in Albania or Macedonia.
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they have to follow rules that will keep them farther away from civilian planes, so they don't trigger this system.
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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.