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Bird, Kai | June 14, 1999 issue

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The article criticizes U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's plea to send NATO troops to the Balkan region. The idea seems even more irrelevant especially after bombing of a hospital, prison and three diplomatic missions. Since NATO commanders have admitted they failed to foresee the horrifying outcome of the air war, this is the moment to spell out the likely consequences of a ground invasion. While the invasion force assembles in Albania, Serbian paramilitaries will increase the pace of expulsions and killings of Kosovars and engage in a scorched-earth retreat. NATO's killing of civilians will accelerate, driven by a strategic decision to break the population's will.

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ALBRIGHT, Madeleine Korbel; NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization; BOMBINGS; WAR; UNITED States; BALKAN Peninsula
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