It is also expected that tactical bombing in Kosovo itself will erode Serb resistance, clearing a path for ethnic-Albanian fighters and perhaps, in the end, for incoming western troops too.

ECONOMIST: NATO piles it on

As the number of forward-deployed aircraft carriers declines and the U.S. gradually withdraws from its overseas bases, it will become increasingly difficult to use tactical aircraft in bombing missions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Letter to the President

He explains the tactical advantages of suicide-bombing greater accuracy, simplified planning and a more powerful political message but does not then say why such tactics appeared comparatively late in the long history of terrorism.

ECONOMIST: Terrorism