20 June 1998 AVIANO, ITALY—“The exercises you will see today are a model for NATO in the 21 century,” stated General Michael Short, commander for the alliance air force in southern Europe, at an early dawn briefing on Monday. Dressed in an air force jumpsuit with no decoration, clearly exhausted and successfully hiding nervousness, the […]

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