Deep inside the Pentagon, the 1,500-page plan to pull 25,000 U.N. peacekeepers out of Bosnia is known as Op Plan 40-104. In the Pentagon's public-affairs suites, the plan is known as Operation Determined Effort. But some American troops deride it as Dunkirk 2. Last week's fall of Srebrenica increased the probability that the plan will become a reality.
American military personnel are already in Zagreb, setting up the communications network necessary for the highly choreographed departure, while U.S. Army troops in Germany and Italy have been training for it for weeks. An allied force of up to 83,000 would spend as...
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