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To: Neocon who wrote (14874)	10/11/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) of 17770

Neocon, Got to update your figures old boy: American casualty figures should be 4 if you include one Marine hit by a vehicle on the Macedonian border and one Recon Ranger that died because his parachute failed just the other day. Also, I believe the destruction figures for JNA (Yugoslav Army Forces) are greatly exagerated. Most of those "tanks" destroyed by NATO aircraft were decoys. For example, it was thought that we had destroyed perhaps 60% of the tanks on the ground in Kosovo of the 300 that the JNA had on the ground. However, after the cease-fire agreement, the JNA removed about 270 tanks from Kosovo. Of the 30 left behind about 1/2 had suffered severe mechanical failure and were abandoned and about 15 had been destroyed by NATO aircraft. The Pentagon was amazed that we had over- estimated the destruction of the JNA tank numbers. The real total of JNA tanks destroyed was about 5%, not 60%. Real damage to the JNA was significant but nothing near the estimates by NATO. Don't believe the ficticious numbers produced by NATO right after the war. Wait another year or two for the actual numbers produced by the Pentagon. -John

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