Authors Public Collections Topics My Collections

Quotes by Michael Short

“Thats a long wagon train,”

“Its very reasonable to say the aircraft will be tracked by Yugoslav early warning systems.”

“The guidance for attacking bridges in the future was: you will no longer attack bridges in daylight, you will no longer attack bridges on weekends or market days or holidays,”

“In fact, ... You will only attack bridges between ten oclock at night and four oclock in the morning. That creates a sanctuary and makes the kids (allied pilots) very, very predictable as to how were going to do our business.”

“We will be close enough that the Serbs will know NATO will be there.”

“Id have gone for the head of the snake the on first night, ... Id have turned the lights out the first night. Id have dropped the bridges across the Danube. Id have hit five or six political/military headquarters in downtown Belgrade. (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic and his cronies would have waked up the first morning asking what the hell was going on.”

“Some of the things on there were pretty frightening. Its that secret life of teens that we dont know about.”

“There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.”