Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don’t want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it.

The Iraqis move forces back and forth on sort of an unpredictable basis from time to time; they do appear to be moving some missiles and other forces into the southern no-fly zone.

The Air Force is in the process of taking down all its tents at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia because the airmen are moving into dormitories, and therefore these tents could possibly be...

It would be an absolute victory for terrorists … if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,

we believe there were bunkers in this facility and in many other facilities.

This offer may be one sign he is rattled, but we are going to continue to rattle him until he makes an offer that meets our conditions, and he’s far away from that right now.

trying to get food to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within Kosovo is a priority for NATO and certainly for the non-government organizations.

Right now we’re concentrating primarily on searching for and caring for survivors. But when that phase of the operation is over, obviously we’ll have to concentrate on providing food and shelter.

I would question what joy one can derive from being a strongman in a weak country, as Saddam Hussein is,

We are making progress against military infrastructure, and we are reducing the Yugoslav ability to sustain operations.

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,

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.

(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...

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.