Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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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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My understanding is that they (the government in Jakarta) have provided a battalion of forces from outside of East Timor, ... And that they were able to turn back an assault by militia groups against the U.N. people last night.
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The principal impact we've had so far is to reduce their ability to sustain themselves, to reduce their supplies. We are now beginning to focus more on the troops on the ground. That began last night with sustained attacks on their staging areas.
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There have been no violations of the no-fly zone by the Iraqi forces for the last five days or so,
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In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history
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The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target. And we have been targeting that, and have now, we believe, removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo -- perhaps as much as 90 percent of the artillery in Kosovo in the last several weeks -- by attacking massed artillery along the borders.
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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,
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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.
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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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.