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An 8 page essay that discusses the major points from General Wesley Clark's autobiographical account of the Kosovo war, Waging Modern War. While Clark agrees with the political objectives of the Kosovo campaign and successfully used military force to obtain these objectives, his description of his Kosovo experience paints a scenario in which this successful conclusion did not originate with the leadership of the Clinton Administration, Pentagon leaders or NATO. Clark argues that the Kosovo war could have been easily lost, first of all, because a lack of effective leadership led to fighting a war that was not defined as a war; the resistance of the Pentagon toward supporting the Kosovo war properly; and the constraints placed on NATO forces by legal advisers concerning tactical options. No additional sources are cited.
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the first war in military history in which there were no combat-related casualties on the winning side. American and NATO led diplomacy had worked when backed by the "big stick"
of military force. Subsequent to the victory, the man primarily responsible, the chief of both NATO forces and the American European Command, General Wesley Clark was fired. Clark
recounts his version of the Kosovo war in his autobiographical text Warning Modern War (2002). Clarks text describes vicious political infighting between himself and the Pentagons top brass. While Clark
agrees with the political objectives of the Kosovo campaign and successfully used military force to obtain these objectives, his description of his Kosovo experience paints a scenario in which this
successful conclusion did not originate with the leadership of the Clinton Administration, Pentagon leaders or NATO. Clark argues that the Kosovo war could have been easily lost, first of all,
because a lack of effective leadership led to fighting a war that was not defined as a war; the resistance of the Pentagon toward supporting the Kosovo war properly; and
the constraints placed on NATO forces by legal advisers concerning tactical options. Clark (2002) relates how there was considerable resistance to using force to stop the Serbian
"ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo and how NATO leaders hesitated to term planned military action as a "war." On the other hand, he also explains how it was his underlying conviction
that NATO, having engaged Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, had to achieve all of its objectives in order to maintain its credibility on the world stage. Therefore, Clark saw it as
his role as supreme allied commander to promote the use of decisive force. Nevertheless, the initial air strikes were intentionally restrained. This strategy postponed the necessity of crushing Serbia and
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