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Geert Lovink: More about winning wars |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <nettime-l-temp@material.net> is the temporary home of the nettime-l list while desk.nl rebuilds its list-serving machine. please continue to send messages to <nettime-l@desk.nl> and your commands to <majordomo@desk.nl>. nettime-l-temp should be active for approximately 2 weeks (11-28 Jun 99). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:43:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl> To: nettime-l@desk.nl Subject: More about winning wars ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:02:08 -0400 From: Ivo Skoric <ivo@reporters.net> To: ikajosev@afsc.org Subject: More about winning wars NATO claims victory over Yugoslavia: the list of destroyed "assets". The facts are less boisterous, however: in 79 days number of aircraft used in the raids swelled from 12 to 1100 and the costs of the operation exceeded the entire Russia's '99 military budget. Nevertheless, of 220,000 bombs only 13 hit Yugoslav tanks (by admission of Yugoslav authorities), leaving Milosevic with almost untouched ground forces. Actually, NATO troops in Kosovo so far found only 3 (three) destroyed T-55 tanks - one of which we saw repeatedly on CNN the day NATO moved in. It seems that Americans are as happy to have shot down a single museum bound T-55 as Serbs were when they shot down the F- 117. You can try your own combat simulation at [http://www.janes.ea.com] Jane's Combat Simulations (maybe one day you make a good NATO general). ivo