It is also expected that tacticalbombing in Kosovo itself will erode Serb resistance, clearing a path for ethnic-Albanian fighters and perhaps, in the end, for incoming western troops too.
As the number of forward-deployed aircraft carriers declines and the U.S. gradually withdraws from its overseas bases, it will become increasingly difficult to use tactical aircraft in bombing missions.
He explains the tactical advantages of suicide-bombing greater accuracy, simplified planning and a more powerful political message but does not then say why such tactics appeared comparatively late in the long history of terrorism.