The Serbian effort to organize an adequate standing army will be opposed by Austria and the Ottoman Empire.

Later, he said Serbian efforts to paint him as a willing collaborator with Belgrade who opposed the bombing campaign were "false and propaganda."

When war broke out in 1991, he supported the Serbian effort.

But patrolling aircraft would be able to respond and disrupt Serbian efforts to mass artillery fire, he said.

The munition was subsequently used on the night of 7 May 1999 to counter Serbian efforts to restore damage caused by the initial attack.

The BLU-114/B was again used a few days later to counter Serbian efforts to restore damage caused by the initial attack.

Sending attack missions from Turkey and Hungary will also help the alliance foil Serbian efforts to anticipate the direction of attacks.

But he was, to some degree, an equal opportunity tyrant: He also halted Serbian efforts to settle Kosovo.

Earlier Serbian efforts to remove Muslims from parts of Bosnia were accompanied by numerous massacres.

NATO acknowledges that its air campaign has had little effect in stemming the Serbian effort to evict ethnic Albanians from Kosovo.