What are the American contingency plans to deal with resistance to the efforts of the Implementation Force?
Military commanders with experience in the Balkans have emphasized that U.S. forces are certain to encounter resistance from armed elements in Bosnia.10 President Clinton has stated that should the peace accord break down, U.S. troops would withdraw rather than stay in the midst of renewed civil war. A complete breakdown is not likely to happen because all parties benefit in the short run from the opportunity to rest and re-arm. It is far more likely that there will be sporadic and local levels of resistance and intransigence, in which case the United States will have only three bad options: the “Northern Ireland option,” in which the U.S. struggles on with the original mandate of the mission, accepting the casualties and continued commitment to the operation with no easily achievable end-state in sight; the “Vietnam option,” in which the U.S. reinforces its forces and expands its mission and rules of engagement in order to try to force a solution through a more significant military ef
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