"That we could raise the price to a point where it would no longer make any sense for [Milosevic] to go on, and where he
could no longer maintain his position if he did." -President Clinton on the goal of Operation Allied Force

"This is not a victory. I think that this is going to continue to be a mess." -Former Vice President Dan Quayle.

 I think that are military system is trying to focus on a more on the Prussian system. Basically Germany has used this system to perpare for at least three wars. Now days we have "Budget Cuts" and back then hey had Versailles and what not. Basically you train loads of men and let them do brief stints. When war is declared, you have a huge resource pool. This system MAY be flawed. The armies we will face in the next centuries will not be composed of citzen-soldiers; but will instead be composed of warriors. To warriors, war is away of life. The warrior fights on his home terrain. The Viet Cong arguably the toughest enemy we faced since 1945; was a warrior. The same applies to the Somalian "yahoos" that ambushed the Rangers. The Serbian army was faced was composed of warriors not soldiers. Serbians had not only fought in, Bosnia but; also had taken on served elsewhere as mercenaries. They were more prepared for the figures of an extended campaign than we were. American support for the war slowly trickled down until the end of the conflict.   I'll wager their morale is still high. A few  more notes:
 
 
 * The Military was tight on the media as it was in the Gulf. No rummaging around in the warzone, was allowed as it was in Vietnam. Note how the media shifted it's attention quickly from the four-day Operation Desert Fox bombings to the Kosovo intervention.
 *The Crusade against Slobdan Milosevic is nothing new for Al Gore, as a senator he was blasting the man when the rest of America had never heard of the place.
* At a glance it would seem the war was one from the Air. This is not true, in the closing weeks of the war a KLA offensive brought lots of Serbian tanks and vehicles out of hiding. Our air power had previously been unable to destroy these hidden vehicles. The loss of these vehicles finally brought Milosevic to the table. A similar one-sided battle would've happened in 1975 if the US had used B-52s  and other aircraft to destroy the North Vietnamese tanks in "Spring Victory Offensive" against South Vietnam.
* Also the massed NATO ground troops poised to intervene may have effected the Serbian withdraw.
 * I find it shocking that in interventions America fought in the 1990's (Kuwait, Somalia, and Kosovo) in all of them the opposing force was able to capture American troops. These prisoners were paraded in front of the TV camera to the shock of the outside world and the American public. In doing so, the enemy achieved the objective of bringing the war home to America. These few POWs were given more focus than those captured in Vietnam, WWII, or Korea.
* The Kosovo War helped shine the light of the new NATO, as a regional peacekeeping force; however the basic outline for this had been around since the 1991 NATO conference in Rome.
* Germany for the first time since WWII sent men into battle ironically on the anniversary of their 1941 attack of Belgrade. In 1999 this was their target as well. German troops served in non-combat roles in Cambodia, Somalia,  and Bosnia prior to this. * Russian Federation soldiers proved their resolve to  when a truck of ethnic Albanians came under fire from Serbs. The Russians returned fire killing three of the Serbs.  American forces have also found the situation less than peaceful in the new Kosovo, the KLA worked with the NATO forces but; a combination of Serbian infilitrators and Kosovar riots have lead to increasing risks to Allied soldiers.