The broad trend evident in these force developments is that foreign militaries that been paying close attention to evolving US conventional capabilities and are moving toward mobility, periodic relocation, camouflage and concealment, hardening, underground facilities, geographic dispersal, and positioning deep inside defended airspace to improve the survivability of their military systems and facilities. A telling example was the success the Serbs had in 1999 in keeping relocatable elements of their air defense system alive by displacing SAM launchers and radars as little as a few hundreds of yards overnight. These small displacements blurred the precise coordinates of these targets inside the cycle time of the NATO air-tasking-order (ATO) process, which meant that they could survive strikes by systems such as TLAM that targeted coordinates.

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Watts, Barry D. Long-Range Strike: Imperatives, Urgency, and Options. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, April 2005. [ 3 quotes ] [ page 55 ]