Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.
For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.
When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
Desert Storm created the pattern for the American way of war that eventually prevailed in Kosovo. America learned from Vietnam that unilateral use of force eventually forfeits international legitimacy and domestic support. Desert Storm demonstrated the political necessity of coalition warfare.
In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.
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