until the present day of today May 18th, 1999 the U.S. Armed Forces and NATO has bombed Milosevics’ army and armed buildings in and through out Kosovo.Although cost is a major issue in the Kosovo crisis, the United States’ involvement in Kosovo should commence for the safety and the return of the Ethnic Albanians and NATO will have a larger percentage of achieving their goals. As you may know, war is expensive, whether it is only a day long, a week or even a year war cost money and lives. “An average of 18 - 27 million dollars has been used a day on war heads and ammunition in the Kosovo crisis alone by the United states, not to mention the extra three million dollars used for the expense on the U.S. troops that have been sent over there.” (Lost of war 27). “The Pentagon projects that an expanding air war will cost a total of more than five billion dollars this fiscal year which ends September 30, 1999.” (Lost of war 27). If you average this up we are talking roughly among 792 million - Portell 41,188 billion dollars spent already on war heads and ammunition. Along with the extra 132 million on troop support that we have over there. That is a lot of money; but all of it is needed for the safety of our troops, NATO’s troops and the return of the Ethnic Albanians. The U.S. has sent 7 aircraft carriers and over 300 war planes to Italy and Great Britain. These planes include the: B-2 Stealth Bomber, the Stealth Fighter jet, the F-15 Eagle, fuel carriers, and the famous Tomahawk Fighter that can takeoff straight up and down from a stand still position. Along with the planes and the carriers, President Clinton ordered an extra 30 Apache helicopters to fly over to Italy to help support our ground tactics. Because of their slow speed and slow maneuvering they were more of a target rather than hitting their targets so, on May 14th, 1999 because of Clinton’s reasons the helicopters were or...
