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Operation Allied Force was a campaign extending over 78 days and involving more than 900 aircraft, hundreds of cruise missiles, four aircraft carriers and more than a dozen other ships and submarines. Their mission was to use air power to halt or diminish a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by more than 50,000 Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo...
...this era of globalization there may be other such conflicts ahead. These will be minimal-risk campaigns, emphasizing aerospace power or ships at sea to threaten precision strikes from long range, with small, stealthy unmanned vehicles to collect information and deliver firepower, and they will be controlled by distant leaders using virtual command technologies. Even better, if we have the capability, will be cyberwar to scramble an enemy's military command or disrupt electricity systems without bloodshed...
...future we will seldom fight alone; we must be able to operate with our allies. Land and naval forces will be needed as well as aerospace power, and all must be able to work jointly. We will still require a nuclear deterrent. Our armed forces must have the latest in technology and be agile enough to use it to achieve their assigned objectives within the directed political constraints. But, above all, we will still need talented, resourceful and courageous men and women to fight and direct our military actions...
...took the molasses-like movement of the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters to Albania during last year's Kosovo conflict to make planners publicly admit this is no way to fight a war in the future. "Our heavy forces are too heavy, and our light forces lack staying power," General Eric Shinseki declared as he assumed command of the Army last year. To make the U.S. military lighter--but still lethal--Shinseki and other Pentagon officials are working on a new arsenal of agile arms that could accompany troops into battle over the next generation...
Looking ahead, old-style proliferation--the acquisition of nuclear weapons by non-nuclear states--will hardly be the worst problem. Most countries have little interest in getting the bomb, either because they are not gravely threatened (such as Costa Rica) or because their safety is guaranteed by another nuclear power such as the U.S. (like Germany and Japan). The few countries that are interested, meanwhile, can be divided into what have been called the orphans and the rogues...