American General Wesley Clark, in the first part of his testimony in The Hague, stated that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was an army made up of self-organized and motivated individuals, but without clear command and control.

Among other things, he emphasized that the Serbian army was afraid of the KLA.

“We always say command and control, because command is competence and authority, while control is the way to supervise. From what we saw, it had neither of these elements. We had some observers on the border between Albania and Kosovo, but even they were unable to gather reliable information. It was clear that it was a group motivated to fight; sometimes they captured someone — at one point they had captured a Russian — and I wasn’t interested in that. They were simply self-organized people,” Clark said, adding that “I had no doubt that the Serbian army was afraid of them.”