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.

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.

We could have part of an enabling force on the ground in Kosovo within several days of a decision to do so.

Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory,

We’re going to need a larger KFOR, and we want it deployed to Macedonia as quickly as possible, … Should there be a peace agreement quickly, as we hope, we need a force that’s ready...

I can tell you that their activities and buildup in the Gulf seem to go far beyond their defensive need, particularly on those three little islands,

Acknowledging that this is a tricky political time, (he) said to them that he expected them to play straight on the readiness issue, to give the facts, not to beat the drum with a tin...

He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us

You have to remember,

Morale is high, and the best sign of that is that retention is going up and the recruiting problem that we faced last year has largely been repaired.

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren’t ready to be announced at this stage.

They’ve done this with consummate skill and professionalism and success. I don’t think there’s a citizen who isn’t proud of the way our military has performed in these operations and is performing every day

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops,

This is a very high-priority program. We are working very hard … to get the president the information he needs from the technical side to make a decision sometime this summer.

It’s unsaid because that’s not true. That’s not the plan.

many of the tankers are flown by reservists.

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.