Word: attrition
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops into Serbia but were unable to root Serbian partisans out despite four years of fierce fighting. "The Serbs are using their air-defense system as a quasi guerrilla force to capture the attention and distract the focus of NATO air power," Spinney says. "They are not trying to attrit NATO's air force as much as to neutralize its effects...
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