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To: Neocon who wrote (9674)	5/24/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: Urlman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

CIA Plotting Cyberwar against Milosevic Reuters 3:00 a.m. 24.May.99.PDT President Clinton has approved a top-secret plan to destabilize Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, using computer hackers to attack his foreign bank accounts and a sabotage campaign to erode his public support, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. #reply-9722274

To: Neocon who wrote (9674)	5/24/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Yaacov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

>>Yaacov, it is pathetic and disturbing, but there are reasons for the limited success that>> Well, maybe there is another reason for lack of success of NATO to completely destroy Serbs war machine! Maybe US doesn't want to destroy Serbs armed forces, in order to leave a counter ballance to KLA! The same mistake that US made in the closing days of Gulf War, where south of Bassora they allowed four Iraqi armored divisions escape to the North!!

To: Neocon who wrote (9674)	5/24/1999 6:48:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

The reasons for the relative ineffectiveness of the air attacks, and the limited validity of comparing them to a potential action against the former Warsaw Pact, are actually a bit simpler. NATO planning for an action against the Pact was based on the assumption that they would be facing a massed armor-artillery attack on NATO territory. An attack like this necessarily exposes those assets to air attack. The Serbs have taken the opposite tack, dispersing and concealing those assets. This makes them very difficult to effectively target. It also makes them totally useless for attacking anybody, but that doesn't matter. Milosevic isn't trying to attack anybody; all he's trying to do is hold Kosovo, which he can do with unsupported infantry. This is why no action against the Serbs will succeed without a ground component. Defending against a ground attack would force them to deploy their armor and artillery, and once deployed it would be easy meat for air attacks. Not saying that I support the use of ground troops, only that the air campaing will not be effective without it.