| Show ayea 4A Friday rMaUMMf National April 30 1999 CRISIS Standard-Examine- THE BALKANS IN General: US Air Force sorely strained nition stocks critically short not cruise missiles as previously reported but also of another precision weapon the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) dropped by 2 bombers The Washington Post before the next scheduled ery in May just of WASHINGTON - The general who oversees US combat aircraft said Thursday that the Air Force has been sorely strained by the Kosovo conflict d and would be to handle a second war in the Middle East or Korea Gen Richard Hawley who heads the Air Combat Command said five weeks of bombing Yugoslavia have left US mu hard-presse- So low is the inventory behind is falling With NATO’s deliv- latest request for another 300 US aircraft - on top of 600 al- On a day the Pentagon announced deployment of another 2 10 giant bombers to NATO’s air battle Hawley said the continuing buildup of US aircraft means more aircrew shortages in the United States And because the Air Force tends to send its most experienced crews the four-sta- r general said the experience level of units left B-- of the new satellite-guide- d weapons Hawley said that as the bombing campaign accelerates the Air Force risks exhausting its prewar supply of more than 900 JDAMs ready committed - Hawley said the readiness rating of the remaining fleet will drop quickly His grim assessment underscored questions about the US military’s ability to manage a conflict such as the assault on Yugoslavia after reducing and reshaping forces since the Cold War Yugo airstrikes match length of the Iraqi air war Kuwait in August 1990 He said in an interview Thursday that he saw signs of a toughening in Press Ths Associated - WASHINGTON Now in its 38th day NATO's air war in Yugoslavia has lasted as long as the US-le- d air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War which on Day 39 NATO’s approach including the 2 decision to send more bombers into the fight At this stage of the US-le- d air war against Iraq there was little doubt about the outcome The allies had wrecked Iraqi air defenses and destroyed an estimatd of his armor in Kued wait Hundreds of Iraqi soldiers already had been taken prisoner and those that remained in Kuwait were desperate When President Bush gave Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a deadline of Feb 23 to give up land inKuwait or face a US-le- d vasion there were about 700000 allied troops - 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