We don’t know why they have moved these troops or exactly what they plan to do with these troops that they have marshaled around the borders.

I can’t psychoanalyze why (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein does what he does, but I can tell you this. It’s smart for him to stop attacking our planes because he was losing a lot of equipment....

fairly standard aspect of warfare.

Taking out a couple hundred soldiers here and a couple hundred soldiers there is not what we consider a withdrawal. We consider that to be theater.

He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.

It is part of a plan to make force mobility more difficult, to interdict the flow of supplies and of forces,

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

(Even) if the interceptor hits the (mock warhead), it could still not be a successful integrated systems test because there could be other parts of the test that failed,

Any NATO personnel that were shot down and captured by Yugoslav forces would be entitled to all the protections offered by the Geneva Convention. And they would be covered by the provisions that apply to...

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...

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...

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.

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

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,

inaccurate … in basically every respect.

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.

morale is dangerously low.

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.

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

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, …...

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.

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...

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

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.