Article: USS Theodore Roosevelt diverted to adriatic

Operation Allied Force:

Cruise Missiles Strike First From Sea and Air

Less than two weeks after NATO launched its aerial bombing and cruise missile campaign code-named Operation Allied Force-on 24 March to pressure President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia to accept a political solution to the crisis in Kosovo, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen diverted the Nimitz-class nuclear-- powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the other ships in her battle group to the Adriatic Sea to support NATO air strikes against Serb strategic and military targets. The U.S. defense secretary also directed a number of other deployments in April to increase U.S. support to NATO military and ...

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