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To: goldsnow who wrote (9701)	5/24/1999 7:08:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

<<Absolutely not..Serb strategy drawn on Tito partisan war experience is to draw enemy into occupation, and inflict unsustainable causalties...They would give-up Belgrade..come and hold it.. Similar to Chechen tactic against Russians>> It is my understanding that this is the case as well. I understand that Tito's strategy in the event of a Soviet invasion was to put all the conventional forces at the front, with the intention that they would be destroyed. This buys time for the light mountain troops and the leadership to retreat into the mountains of central Serbia to engage in guerrilla war against the occupiers.

To: goldsnow who wrote (9701)	5/24/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Serb strategy drawn on Tito partisan war experience is to draw enemy into occupation, and inflict unsustainable causalties. They would give-up Belgrade..come and hold it.... I can't imagine any circumstance in which NATO would attempt an extended occupation of Serbia. Kosovo, at the very most. Why on earth would they want to occupy Belgrade? To arrest Milosevic? He would be long gone before they got there. The only conceivable goal for a NATO ground action - which looks improbable in any event - would be to seize Kosovo, resettle refugees, and withdraw, leaving a UN peacekeeping force. Milosevic could not defend Kosovo without major military assets. Trying to defend it by guerilla tactics would force him to fight a guerilla war against an occupying force and a hostile population, which would not be supportable.