It’s required sharp increases in pay and benefits, and I think those have been appropriate, particularly in light of the recruiting problems that we were having a year ago, and the quality of life problems...

The Defense Department has sent out two advisories to military installations and commanders around the world,

We’ve certainly seen preparations for moving out.

He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations’ embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the...

We’re watching it very carefully. We have certainly seen signs that (Saddam Hussein is) attempting to reconstruct his air defense abilities north of the 32nd parallel.

I think it’s good we called this genocide. It’s bad that we’re not doing more to stop it.

We have very robust, well-trained combat search and rescue teams available to search for them.

This is a very eerie and disturbing echo of documented instances of rape and killing of women in Bosnia during the Bosnia war, and it is obviously outrageous if this is occurring.

We’re looking at ways to improve the quality of life, … Beyond pay and retirement, one is medical care, and that’s a box that is yet to be checked, but it’s something that the secretary...

Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals,

indicative of increased allied pressure on the very center, the central nerve system of the regime that controls military and security forces.

I think that if you look at that, you’ll see that there’s been a dramatic increase in the amount of time and energy that’s been put into this project.

I don’t think completing your training early qualifies in most people’s minds as a readiness problem.

There have been some down days (during which patrols were not conducted) because of weather and other reasons, but we are still patrolling the no-fly zones, particularly in the south, aggressively.

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

The encouraging thing is, that after a couple of days, the Yugoslav government has announced that they will be treated as POWs,

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

Obviously we are gratified that CNN retracted a report that we believe was not accurate.

This highlights again that Greece needs to take a tougher stance against terrorism.

Enterprising generals and admirals will always find ways — very good ways — to spend more money.

He delayed for a long while participating in the oil-for-food program, which has actually been one of the hopeful and helpful measures that the U.N. has brought to Iraq, allowing it to import more food...

But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.

Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s) air defenses, the high state of alert, we think he is interested in much more than diplomacy, that he has ulterior motives...

The question you all will have is, ‘Isn’t this a step toward the deployment of ground troops in Kosovo?’ … The answer is, absolutely not. This is pure and simple an expansion of the air...

It’s not surprising that their facilities are primitive by our standards. It’s also not surprising that, given the dedication and money they’ve devoted to upgrading their military, that they have been able to produce long-range...

I don’t know quite what they mean by that, whether they’ll build the military back up in size to 2.1 million people to a Cold War-force size or whether they’ll leave it at the current...

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is...

These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which...

This is what right now we see as the type of force that will be self-contained and be able to provide the engineering capability, the patrolling capability, the internal force protection security capability that’s necessary.

There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,

It will be much easier to attack them.

What we have seen is extremely active activity by (Iraq’s) air defense system,

This will basically help NATO tighten the noose around Milosevic’s neck, … do a more effective job at eliminating or neutralizing the forces on the ground.

The principal impact we’ve had so far is to reduce their ability to sustain themselves, to reduce their supplies. We are now beginning to focus more on the troops on the ground. That began last...

There has not been a knockout punch. We knew a knockout punch would not come quickly, … We’re now in the seventh day. I think it will take much longer.

He wanted to make sure that no decisions were made by default, and that everybody was aware of the type of planning, and potentially training, that would be required for a future movement of forces.

We are in favor of having NATO move to the next stage, which is the so-called activation warning, to come closer to the use of military force if necessary.

When the secretary sat down and looked at all of these openings…he felt that Ralston would bring the same qualifications to the job that General Clark did.

He is no longer a threat to his neighbors and is not seen as a threat to his neighbors. That’s largely because of the containment that we have carried out.

My expectation is that based on the amount of chemical weapons in the pit and then what we’ve been told about wind patterns on that day and the disposition of forces … there could be...

There were reports on Radio Free Europe that water hoses were used against women and children who were protesting the fact that their husbands or fathers, loved ones, were being killed in Kosovo,

Sophisticated systems such as the SAM-6 missile can be moved very easily. The Iraqis do that, and the Serbs do it as well.

Also, some of the Army assets going into Macedonia and Albania likely would come from the reserves. There are specialties such as civil affairs that only exist in the reserves.

In the last four years, the (U.S.) military has fought one of the most successful air wars in history

It’s a tragedy for everyone, particularly the families, the ski area, the cable car operators and the Marines as well, … set out to determine culpability in a fair, open and thorough way.

This visit did not comply with the rules or conventions under international law, the Geneva Convention, in that they were not allowed to see these prisoners alone, they were escorted by representatives of the Yugoslav...

I am not aware that there has been a huge problem

The crews of the new ships can help do some of the work that’s required to keep the ship afloat and to deal with the damage to the hull,

Milosevic should understand the seriousness of our efforts and our determination to keep this fight going until we achieve our goals.

we don’t believe that there’ll be any problem with meeting the time lines.