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What are the contributions to vital national security objectives ? If we are unwilling to commit the forces or the resources necessary to achieve our objectives , we should not commit them at all . They came in , I think , the third day and were understandably irritated because we only stayed about 15 or 20 days and had completed our objectives and got out . The goal of the meeting was to adopt the agreement on environmental protection of ecologically vulnerable Caspian See . Once it became clear that President Milosevic was not going to agree to the principles set forth in the Rambouillet accord , Ambassador Holbrooke attempted one final diplomatic surge to convince him to accept the Rambouillet framework or face NATO air strikes . Our depots surged , our contractors surged , and spare parts were delivered from our depots to the theater of operations , often by commercial two-day service ! Suddenly the situation on the ground changes and the JFACC has three B-2s ready to strike up to 600 targets and the JFACC has to orchestrate and re-engineer the air effort and he has less than two minutes to do it . We have worked hard to fix the spare parts problem , but that is a problem that will continue for decade after decade as our aircraft age , and it is one we must address more fundamentally than simply fixing each part as it breaks . On day one of a conflict , along with the 500 or so other traditional platforms the JFACC sends in three B-2s to strike heavily defended , high priority targets . But starting in late 1997 , with the help of Congress , we have moved spare parts funding from a low of 80 % of the requirement in 1996 and 1997 to almost 130 % of the requirement in 1999 .