Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.
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We believe that both countries would be better off if they took steps to reduce tensions, not increase tensions.
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Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's) air defenses, the high state of alert, we think he is interested in much more than diplomacy, that he has ulterior motives to moving these around and we need to be prepared.
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If the summoned vessel takes flight, she may be pursued and brought to by forcible measures if necessary,
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There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we'll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are able to win, if we win a peace agreement, if we succeed.
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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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He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us
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There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.
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There is extensive movement in Iraq's air defense system. We assume that this movement is for two reasons. Part of it is defensive, so that it is harder for us to target ... air defense missiles, particularly SA-6 missiles, but also SA-2 missiles and ROLAND missiles, and we also think that some of it is offensive.
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But altogether, we think that we have a better chance of maintaining the type of stability we have achieved in Asia through a full dialogue with China, and that's what we'll be working on with Minister Chi's visit.
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But also it probably is not the easiest time to visit China. China, as you know, has broken off military-to-military relations temporarily with the United States and he feels that it may be better to go later.
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Basically, it will allow us to increase the intensity of the air campaign over Kosovo and Yugoslavia.
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If we could get by with fewer troops we would, but those figures won't be known until we understand what the peace agreement is, if we get one.
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I don't know quite what they mean by that, whether they'll build the military back up in size to 2.1 million people to a Cold War-force size or whether they'll leave it at the current size.