1.   How else to fully measure the physical and ethical costs of waging future conflicts?

2.   So the choice to spend any significant amount of the surplus beyond what is needed immediately to wage the conflict in the Balkans will be a particularly tricky one.

3.   The conflict was waged by two disciplined armies backed by two well-established governments along a single front.

4.   Today they are waging a conflict over power, oil, and diamonds, which was always the case despite the Cold War overlay.

5.   The remote, mountainous terrain only adds to the high cost of waging the conflict.