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Originally Posted by shek
Sir,
Bosnia was sold as peacekeeping, and there was implicit support since Congress funded the "one-year" operation.
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Even there, the intial entry forces were British, Canadian, and French. The French, noteably were the ones who broke the Sarajevo Seige. The Brits were the relief force to Sarajevo. However, there was absolutely no doubt who was in command and who designated the OPOBJs.
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Originally Posted by shek
I was stationed in Europe at the time of Kosovo and was too busy spinning in preparation of backfilling a potential Russian pullout of Bosnia to know how the Kosovo "don't worry Serbs, there'll be no ground troops" Air War was exactly sold to the American public.
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Oh yeah, they were attached to your sector, weren't they? I remember the vodka flowing quite freely ... and then some. And these were their Air Assaults. Didn't exactly gave me a good impression.
I had bits and pieces of how the war was sold also. Alot of us were too busy trying to get our gov'ts to avoid getting involved.
I do remember alot of shock to learn that there was no ground prep work being done by Gen Wesley Clark but alot of individual (most noteably British, French, and Canadian) prep work.
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Originally Posted by Confed999
Hmmm, never looked at it that way. Interesting, something to look up. Thank you too.
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Do give me your impressions.
However, I am going to ask you that did you not think that this was an American war?