This war is an interesting contrast to the messes in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.
In Kosovo we achieved our strategic goals in 78 days with only 4 American casualties.
In part that success was not listening to people like Biden and McCain. We had clear, limited objectives and a concrete plan for achieving them.
“In Kosovo we achieved our strategic goals in 78 days with only 4 American casualties.”
The part that I didn’t like was bombing the crap out of civilians there because we couldn’t safely fly low enough to hit military targets with any effectiveness.
But I guess since Europe and NATO supported the above and control the courts that determine war crimes, it would never be considered war crimes. Kind of nice to be running those institutions, though!
What needs to be pointed out here, is we were the aggressors who attacked with US personnel, without a declaration of war by Congress. NATO is an alliance for other NATO members. Yugoslavia was not a NATO member and should not have been bombed. It was an illegal action for which President Clinton, along with his secretaries overseeing foreign affairs, should have been arrested as war criminals.
What we did in Yugoslavia is no different in Ukraine. It was illegal then as is now.
“We had clear, limited objectives and a concrete plan for achieving them.”
Those objectives were absolutely corrupt, divorced from US interests.
It was all about do-gooderism. And thoroughly misguided.