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Interventions in the gray areas the Pentagon calls "operations other than war" are hardest to explain. General John Shalikashvili, Powell's successor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is the man who directed the operation that provided refuge to the Kurds in Iraq, and he does not shrink from similar missions to bring succor to strife-torn countries. "We have a capacity like almost no one else," he says. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb finds Shalikashvili much more willing to get involved in brush fires than his predecessor. "Powell wanted low-risk operations," Korb says. "But Shali...
That response, which was emphatically echoed by Secretary of State Warren Christopher and John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, would be a bold statement for members of any presidential Administration. But it is especially daring considering that more than three years of war in the Balkans have barely managed to capture the attention, much less the conscience, of American voters. Last Friday, as news arrived that as many as 2,000 Muslims may have been massacred by Bosnian Serbs near Banja Luka, a TIME/CNN poll indicated that only one-third of Americans believe...
...contractors to arm and train the Bosnian Muslim army. The Administration seems convinced that troops can do this and still remain evenhanded peacekeepers; critics say it's the fastest way to destroy the perception of neutrality, and the surest strategy for provoking the Serbs and Croatians. Perry, Christopher and Shalikashvili seemed unruffled by such issues, pointing out that it will be weeks before the Balkan leaders finish their haggling in Ohio--plenty of time, they said, to smooth out wrinkles in the strategy. "Do I believe we have a good solid plan?" remarked an official. "No. Will we get there...
...Monday the Serbs' shell landed in Sarajevo . Riding to work that morning, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who was running the State Department while Christopher was vacationing, heard the first radio report of the shelling. Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Secretary of Defense William Perry and General John Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were also on vacation; Washington was being run by deputies. While the President monitored events from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Talbott convened an 8 a.m. meeting in his office, certain that what he faced was "a test of the London rules," according...
Perry and Shalikashvili convinced him that Chirac's proposal was unacceptable, an idea prompted more by the French sense of honor than by a serious assessment of the situation in Bosnia. Shalikashvili checked with French military chiefs and learned that they also believed the idea was poorly thought out. "Shali's ultimate argument," says a senior White House official, "was that you would have to have an air campaign to get the troops into Gorazde anyway, so why not try an air campaign first...