For at least 69 of those 79 days
For at least 69 of those 79 days, the bombing was ineffectual. This was mostly due to the NATO belief it was wrong to destroy land and public works during a war and the hopeless and arrogant prediction Milosevic would be persuaded to give up power by the mere awesomeness of NATO air power. Real war-making would not be needed to change his mind.
Bomb-damage assessments conducted after hostilities ceased, though, showed that for much of the war, the West was bombing barns, tractors and cattle.New authentichublotwatches at discount prices from SwissLuxury. This might have worked had we been fighting the Serbian ministry of Agriculture rather than the ministry of Defence, but Milosevic and his cronies quickly figured out we weren't serious.authenticpatekphilip Calatrava Watch patek philippe, They then correctly calculated that if they were prepared to sustain some damage - or, more correctly, let their people sustain the damage - they could retain power more or less indefinitely.
This is what Gadhafi has figured out,The eta replica watches offered by our store are made following the original technology. too: The West is a toothless tiger in this war.
We are not always unprepared to fight seriously. We are fighting very real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And part of us - the French - are fighting an actual war in Ivory Coast while at the same time helping with the phoney war in Libya. Yet occasionally, when we don't want to look like Imperialists or bullies or Crusaders, we pull our punches in the hope our gleaming military might will win the day for us and we won't have to resort to total war.
There is a scene from the Kosovo campaign that more than any other typified what I came to believe about that war. On day 44 or 45,Visit the premier rolexshop in Melbourne Australia. ordinary Serbs demonstrated in support of the Serbian president on a bridge over the Danube at night. The remarkable features - at least from a military point of view - were that the bridge was intact six weeks into a "war" and it was well illuminated by street lights that,FASCINANTES Burberry Replicas 100% suizos. obviously, were still drawing reliable electrical power.
The West wasn't serious about bringing Serbia to its knees. It was only in the air campaign's last 10 days that NATO began targeting power stations, refineries, rail lines, bridges and water treatment plants - facilities whose destruction would squeeze the Serbians and their government.
For at least 69 of those 79 days, the bombing was ineffectual. This was mostly due to the NATO belief it was wrong to destroy land and public works during a war and the hopeless and arrogant prediction Milosevic would be persuaded to give up power by the mere awesomeness of NATO air power. Real war-making would not be needed to change his mind.
Bomb-damage assessments conducted after hostilities ceased, though, showed that for much of the war, the West was bombing barns, tractors and cattle.New authentichublotwatches at discount prices from SwissLuxury. This might have worked had we been fighting the Serbian ministry of Agriculture rather than the ministry of Defence, but Milosevic and his cronies quickly figured out we weren't serious.authenticpatekphilip Calatrava Watch patek philippe, They then correctly calculated that if they were prepared to sustain some damage - or, more correctly, let their people sustain the damage - they could retain power more or less indefinitely.
This is what Gadhafi has figured out,The eta replica watches offered by our store are made following the original technology. too: The West is a toothless tiger in this war.
We are not always unprepared to fight seriously. We are fighting very real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And part of us - the French - are fighting an actual war in Ivory Coast while at the same time helping with the phoney war in Libya. Yet occasionally, when we don't want to look like Imperialists or bullies or Crusaders, we pull our punches in the hope our gleaming military might will win the day for us and we won't have to resort to total war.
There is a scene from the Kosovo campaign that more than any other typified what I came to believe about that war. On day 44 or 45,Visit the premier rolexshop in Melbourne Australia. ordinary Serbs demonstrated in support of the Serbian president on a bridge over the Danube at night. The remarkable features - at least from a military point of view - were that the bridge was intact six weeks into a "war" and it was well illuminated by street lights that,FASCINANTES Burberry Replicas 100% suizos. obviously, were still drawing reliable electrical power.
The West wasn't serious about bringing Serbia to its knees. It was only in the air campaign's last 10 days that NATO began targeting power stations, refineries, rail lines, bridges and water treatment plants - facilities whose destruction would squeeze the Serbians and their government.
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