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A 6 page book review that presents an overall summary of General Wesley Clark's autobiographical account of the 1999 Kosovo bombing, which halted a Serbian genocidal campaign. The writer discusses Clark's perspective on whether the campaign fit with the FAS test of military strategy and concludes that it did not. No other sources cited.
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both chief of the NATO forces, as well as head of the American European Command. The Kosovo campaign has gone down in history as a resounding success and was notable
in several respects. It was the first military campaign to be conducted under the auspices of the NATO alliance and may well be the first in which there were no
combat-related casualties on the winning side. Presumably it was an exemplary example of how American and NATO diplomatic efforts could be made effective when backed by the threat and implementation
of superior military power. Examination of Clarks account shows that this victory was not easily won and came very close to not occurring due to political infighting and insufficient leadership.
Clarks argument to support this conclusion describes several pertinent factors. First of all, he feels that the Kosovo war came close to disaster because of a Pentagon leadership that insisted
on fighting a war, but not defining it as a war. This attitude, not surprisingly, led to the Pentagon brass not supporting the Kosovo effort properly. Furthermore, Clarks strategy was
hampered by constraints placed on tactical options by NATO legal advisers. In other words, Clark met with considerable resistance to the concept of using force to halt the
Serbian "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemistic term for genocide) which was then going on in Kosovo. It was Clarks belief that it was important for NATO, having recognized the nature of
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevics actions, to make every effort to achieve its military objectives. Otherwise, Clark felt that NATO would lose credibility on the world stage. The European
preference was for the use of intentionally restrained force, which was intended to prod the Serbian government towards capitulation to international demands. From the beginning, Clark was not in agreement
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