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Geert Lovink: More about winning wars


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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 



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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