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To: Les H who wrote (43891)	4/26/1999 9:38:00 PM
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NATO Admits Possible Strategic Flaw Associated Press 4/26/99 DAVID BRISCOE WASHINGTON -- NATO remains confident that air attacks can win the conflict in Yugoslavia, but its top military officer says the alliance may be flawed in its assessment of how much destruction Slobodan Milosevic will allow before giving up. Gen. Klaus Naumann, head of NATO's military arm, said to hurt the Yugoslav president, NATO has to continue hitting his police, military and Serb paramilitary forces and his propaganda machinery. Even though no military operation has succeeded through air power alone, the German general told a defense writers' group Monday: ''This time we still believe we have a chance to achieve the prime objective through the means of an air campaign.'' He later admitted: ''We may have one flaw in our thinking We believe that no responsible man who is at the helm of a country like Yugoslavia can wish to run the risk that his entire country will be bombed into rubble before he ... complies with the demands of the international community.'' He said Milosevic could end up being ''the ruler of rubble.'' Naumann said Milosevic should realize that having an international force in Kosovo would guarantee the disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which is growing in numbers and strength. ''I think that if he compares the gains and the losses, it may be high time for him to reassess his course,'' Naumann said, although he said Milosevic likely is getting false information from his advisers about losses and NATO resolve. ''Presumably his people are reporting the truth as he wishes to perceive it,'' Naumann said. He said Yugoslavia was 10 years behind the rest of Europe at the start of the NATO campaign, is 10 years further behind as a result of the conflict and could be 50 years behind before the crisis ends.