{"id":81445,"date":"2025-11-17T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=81445"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:14:16","slug":"wesley-clark-in-the-hague-serbian-army-feared-the-kla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/wesley-clark-in-the-hague-serbian-army-feared-the-kla\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Clark in The Hague: Serbian Army Feared the KLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, he emphasized that the Serbian army was afraid of the KLA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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 \u2014 at one point they had captured a Russian \u2014 and I wasn\u2019t interested in that. They were simply self-organized people,\u201d Clark said, adding that \u201cI had no doubt that the Serbian army was afraid of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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