The Battle For Kosovo

Excellent analysis of the situation. However, i would argue, that instead of Nato getting stuck in the quagmire of a ground war going village to village, the audacious move would be a swift strike from Hungary into Belgrade. Decapitate the dragon, and the tail (all Yugo forces in Kosovo) withers and dies, writhing in pain, thrashing like a dying eel which has had its head chopped off. A swift, ruthless strike, to seize Milosevic and occupy the Yugoslav capital, cost 1000 Nato dead. I suggest this option be implemented after 6-8 weeks of this round the clock bombardment have left the Serbs with nothing other than pitchforks to defend themselves with, and conduct genocide. After the seizure of Milosevic, and capitulation of the Yugoslav state, and its occupation, Nato can trumpet the clarion call of democracy too, and bring in all Yugoslav army-Special police unit soldiers and commanders in for war crimes and genocide trial at the Hague starting with Arkan, and Seslej. Clinton is slowly moving towards deploying ground troops, like the nephew of Caesar in Cleopatra, Octavian (the first Roman Emperor), `he will not speak for it (war), but the people of Rome will shout for it, they will demand it`, and then he will act. A few more weeks of genocide horror stories on CNN and T.V in the U.S & Western Europe, plus the continued demonization of Adolph Milosevic, and the American people and Western Europeans will begin to browbeat their leaders to do more ... let the drums of war be beaten ever more loudly. Let blood fill the streets, why sacrifice goats and sheep when they are still Serbs walking the streets? ... let the people of Serbia starve, be without drinking water, a working sewage system, heat, and food ... let them tear Slobodan Milosevic to pieces as the mob tore Nicholai Caucescu & his wife to pieces ... well, they were shot in an apc but i like the sound of it.

One can find much in agreement with this writing.
How unfortunate that ``NATO`` did not act in this
manner seven years ago during Serbia`s war against
Bosnia.

Ras

Reply Ferozk

Well Analyzed. Some thoughts ....

1. After expelling the kosovars, Milosevic will move the serbian refugees from Bosnia and other republics to Kosova and settle them there. This operation would be completed in another 30 days or so once the kosovars are completely evicted. They would also alter the census records to show a different demography within Kosova. So even if some sort of a political settlement is reached for limited autonomy for the kosovars within serbia, the kosovars would find their position considerably diluted even in the post war scenario and everybody else (NATO and milosevic included ) will go to bed happier than before.

2. Russia can be expected to have strong reservations on the use of ground forces against its slavic brothers. Wonder how NATO will handle this ?

3. The situation is hopeless for the Kosovars. A practical scenario would be to just resign towards a future of both political, cultural, demographic and social domination by the serbs with some sort of guarantee overseed by the UN.

Rishi