 | Steven Metz - Balkan Peninsula - 2001 - 62 pages
...the US military's effectiveness and efficiency at protracted peace support operations while retaining the ability to fight and win two nearly simultaneous major theater wars. Its major downside is expense. The new units would require a significant increase in the defense budget... | |
 | 422 pages
...fight and win over the next 10-20 years? In both the Bottom-Up Review in 1993 and the QDR in 1997, the ability to fight and win two nearly simultaneous major theater wars (MTWs) was the highest priority mission assigned to the US military. Iraqi aggression against Kuwait... | |
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... equipped to fight. Commenting on this particular issue after the Kosovo War, the US OAF After-Action Report to the Congress explicitly considered OAF's impact on US strategy: "In considering the implications of OAF for US defense strategy, two important... 