A week ago we weren’t hearing comments like this out of Yugoslavia, out of Belgrade, out of leaders, either political leaders or former military leaders, … Now we are hearing them.

Basically, it will allow us to increase the intensity of the air campaign over Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

There is extensive movement in Iraq’s air defense system. We assume that this movement is for two reasons. Part of it is defensive, so that it is harder for us to target … air defense...

I think right now it is — it is difficult to say that we have prevented one act of brutality at this stage.

We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein’s air defenses quite a lot … For one thing, we think that he’s largely afraid to use his...

It is to relieve the congestion in FYROM, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, temporarily and then … create the conditions that will allow these people to return home, which is where we believe they...

They have fewer assets today than they had yesterday, yes. But I would be misleading you if I told you that they are not yet, that they are at a point where they can’t continue...

We have taken a lot of steps not only to arrest the decline in military spending, but in fact to reverse it.

The reports did not provide enough specificity to allow any skipper or military commander to make a decision to change behavior based on these reports.

We feel that this is an area where a nuclear war is possible if people don’t show restraint, and it’s an area where the damage would be extraordinary because of the large populations of these...

They were, in fact, herded into an area and were, in fact, told before the event took place, ‘Now you’re going to see what a NATO bombing strike is like,’

There is no such thing as clean combat. We have the best trained forces, but there is no way to avoid collateral damage or unintended consequences when weapons are employed to solve what might have...

They are certainly bracing for war,

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they’re still there, that’s regrettable.

These soldiers from the First Infantry Division first went to Macedonia to participate in a United Nations mission called UNPREDP, the U.N. Preventative Deployment, which was protecting Macedonia,

Obviously, if we have a series of tests that are deemed to be failures we couldn’t say that this was ready to deploy.

The Yugoslavs thought that they could wipe out the Kosovo Liberation Army in five to seven days. They have not succeeded in doing that.

The massed artillery is relatively easy for NATO planes to target. And we have been targeting that, and have now, we believe, removed the majority of the artillery in Kosovo — perhaps as much as...

We don’t know whether it’ll be twice as large or three times as large or 50 percent as large as we initially planned.

A spokesman for the Greek government said that they would be allowed to off-load and transit through Greece soon.

I respect Secretary Cohen’s decision, and I will comply with its terms, … I believe that ultimately my conduct will be found lawful.

inaccurate … in basically every respect.

There have been no violations of the no-fly zone by the Iraqi forces for the last five days or so,

This is a major-theater war for the Air Force, not for the service as a whole, but certainly for the Air Force.

We have not degraded it to that point. But we’re only in the second day.

We did attack a Yugoslav army unit in central Kosovo that’s been involved in some of the ethnic cleansing activities. We also attacked a major ammunition dump in Kosovo.

But I am very much aware, as are all the pilots and all the operators, that the enemy is trying to its level best to hear what we’re saying to glean information from it.

morale is dangerously low.

The flying public, I believe, has nothing to worry about. The military is trained to stay well away from civilian airliners.

I think the primary reason for that (the delay) is that, right now, he (Cohen) feels that his place is here in Washington devoting as much time as possible to running the U.S. participation in...

It appears a bomb fell short of its target.

But also it probably is not the easiest time to visit China. China, as you know, has broken off military-to-military relations temporarily with the United States and he feels that it may be better to...

If there are plans for an evacuation, they would be run by Australia, which of course is the nearest country and has taken on responsibility for conducting any sort of an evacuation that’s necessary, …...

By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.

What kind of person would use humans as shields?

A NATO bomb went astray and we don’t know what it hit.

It’s a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.

He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

There’s a wide range of aircraft load masters, … who … aren’t just combat people, but they’re people who load the C-17s and other transport planes to carry humanitarian aid or military equipment into the...

After every flight there is a third-party review of the flight tapes to make sure that there was a full compliance with all flight rules and regulations.

The train has pretty much left the station … We believe this will be painful for the Serbs. We hope that relatively quickly … the Serbs will realize they have made a mistake.

That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.

These are the forces that are being used to attack the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo, and we will continue to focus on those targets.

[Asked whether the U.S. military is as] strong and capable … Well, the military is about the same size, a little smaller, and I would say it is more capable.

We no longer deploy those land mines. We no longer make them, and we no longer export land mines of any sort.

we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.

We’re doing all that. We think it’s good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.

In Bosnia, for instance, they play a crucial role in setting up these joint commissions that bring Army people and local people together to talk about governance issues, providing humanitarian aid.

There may be times when we have to rescue pilots and the less said the better for the safety of the pilots.

Weeks have gone by with no coordination whatsoever, which has made it very difficult for the humanitarian relief organizations to get organized, to figure out exactly what they should be doing to maximum humanitarian advantage,