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37590AFD.FIN Page 1 of 7 Exchange Mail DATE-TIME 5/13/99 11:33:16 AM FROM Keenan, Josefine (Chris) CLASSIFICATION UNCLASSIFIED SUBJECT Kosovo document for edit [UNCLASSIFIED] TO Bobbitt, Philip C. CARBON_COPY TEXT_BODY Dr. Bobbitt: The attached document is the updated text for your edit TRANSLATED_ATTACHMENT Longer Term3.doc May 13, 1999 ACTION MEMORANDUM FOR SAMUEL R. BERGER FROM: PHILIP BOBBITT SUBJECT: Longer Term Communications: Kosovo Introduction Scenario Process: There are three likely scenarios that would end the current war in Kosovo: An early agreement that largely embodies NATO demands; A continuation of the current air war of attrition for an indefinite period; The introduction of ground forces into Kosovo. A public strategy that maximizes our freedom of action, regardless of which scenario comes to pass, builds on the common elements of the US position in the any of these three broad eventualities. (Themes) At the same time, we must avoid steps that, though they may serve what we at the moment expect to be the likeliest scenario, come back to trap us when a different scenario emerges. (Rules) Themes The centrality of Serbian ethnic cleansing Future military historians will associate the well-defined tactics of ethnic cleansing with the Serbs in the same way we now associate the tactics of the blitzkrieg with the Nazis. Ethnic