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Article: CINC says air strikes won't douse Bosnian conflict. (General John Shalikashvili, Commander in Chief, European Command, on effectiveness of possible U.S. military response to eastern European conflict)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- April 21, 1993
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A U.N. air assault on Serbian artillery pieces would be 1ogistically difficult and would probably fail to encourage Serbs to seek a peace agreement with Bosnian Muslims, the top U.S. military official in Europe said yesterday.
While air strikes could reduce Serbian shelling of Muslims in the war-torn region, it would not likely "get Serbs to the negotiating table," Gen. John Shalikashvili, Commander in Chief (CINC) of the U.S. European Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Shalikashvili's remarks were a response to SASC members' questions about the possible U.S. role in quelling the violence in Bosnia. He said a surgical air strike would ...