Insisting that the militants were surrounded, Russian commanders vowed to use air power, artillery and armor to stop them from getting away.

He said both Serb and Croat commanders had vowed to support United Nations liaison teams with their logistics.

Russian politicians and commanders have vowed to increase their forces in Kaliningrad and northwestern Russian in response.

Russian commanders have vowed not to repeat the mistakes of 1994-1996 war in Chechnya when Russian troops raced to the center of Grozny and were cut off and destroyed.

On Friday, a top Israeli commander warned that Israel would halt any resupply efforts and vowed to kill the Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

The commander of peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, with the former political leader of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army beside him, vowed today to stop any insurgency mounted from Kosovo into Serbia.

This time, Russian commanders have vowed not to "storm" the city.

But the commander of the Iraqi Third Army Corps, Maj. Gen. Talia Khalil al-Douri, vowed he would turn the attack into "a huge defeat."

On Friday, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs' army, Gen. Ratko Mladic, vowed to retaliate against NATO and "those who ordered the planes to take off" on Thursday.

Israeli military commanders vowed that in their campaign, called "Operation Protective Wall," all the West Bank cities would be "taken care of," Israeli newspapers reported this morning.