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Operation Allied Force: The lessons learned

"Through-the-Weather Weapons" Show U.S. Aerospace Power

"We shoot a whole lot better than we aim." That is the summary judgment of a senior Navy planner who was looking back a year after Operation Allied Force air strikes kicked off a 78-day war against Yugoslav forces under Slobodan Milosevic. His assessment was underscored by the accidental strike against the People's Republic of China embassy in Belgrade, which killed three people.

"That was a tragedy," the planner acknowledged-but quickly returned to his primary focus: the growing ability of U.S. forces "to achieve 'nearer' realtime intelligence and targeting in Kosovo." That ability, he said, "enabled us to conduct strikes against ...

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