The Clinton Administration has unleashed the largest military action in Europe since World War II to protect Albanian Kosovars from Yugoslavia's brutal ethnic cleansing campaign. But despite its best intentions, Operation Allied Force appears to be failing. The Administration underestimated Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ruthlessness and overestimated the political utility of air strikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
(Archived document, may contain errors) 12/18/85 1 AFGHAN FREEDOM - FIGHTERS STILL NEED U.S. HELP (Updating Backgrounder No. 236, "Afghanistan Three Years Later: More U.S%: Help Needed,," December 27, 1982, and Backgrounder No. 101, "Afghanistan: The Soviet Quagmire," October 25, 1979.)