Serbian resistance capability.

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Fri Apr 16 12:00:24 PDT 1999



> I have
> been pounded on this matter here by a progressive
> anti-war friend who was in the military for a long time
> and claims that the latest US high-tech gizmos would zap
> the Yugoslav military like pathetic lambs, if the full force of
> the US military were to really get in there.

Your imagery alone raises the other risk we face, that Russians will intervene to save their ethnic kin. Any way you look at it we lose: (a) if our military response is insufficient, we get bogged down in another Vietnam morass with all the ludicrous waste that entails; (2) if our military response is sufficient to vanquish the Serbs, then the Russians will be outraged -- in which case we'll be *lucky* if the only result is another cold war (a prospect, BTW, that the Economist seems to welcome -- see the current issue).

Carl Remick



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