Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.
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It's required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems that have been eliminated. And I think that we've worked -- that Secretary (William) Cohen and President Clinton have worked very hard to increase defense investment, as I said, by 40 percent, from $43 billion to $60 billion a year ... That, also, has been justified, and will help us be as strong and dominant in the 21st century as we are now.
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Weeks have gone by with no coordination whatsoever, which has made it very difficult for the humanitarian relief organizations to get organized, to figure out exactly what they should be doing to maximum humanitarian advantage,
goal onto refugees
Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory.
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Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don't want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it.
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Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals.
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It is due to credible threat information on unspecified targets.
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I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.
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It appears a bomb fell short of its target.
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Some of this involves cutting out clutter on the Internet and focusing Web sites so that they provide useful amounts of information without overwhelming users.
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That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.
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Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn't have been.
humans
What kind of person would use humans as shields?
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trying to get food to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within Kosovo is a priority for NATO and certainly for the non-government organizations.