The Kosova Liberation Army also committed serious blunders. Its amateur leaders mistook previous Serb military inaction for retreat. The KLA dug in around villages and set up blocking positions along roads. Instead of fighting a war of movement and attrition, lightly-armed KLA units battled Serb armor and heavy artillery. When the Serb Army was unleashed, the KLA was routed.
Guerillas have no business fighting set-piece battles.
The Albanian guerillas are brave, but have poor, inexperienced leadership and, as always with Albanians, bad communications, bitter personal rivalries, and total lack of coordination or cooperation, either political or military. The KLA should only be waging a hit and run war designed to disrupt Serb road, rail, and electronic communications. Even a handful of such skilled warriors would be able to severely punish the Serbs, and make their continued military occupation of Kosova prohibitively expensive and painful. Luckily for the Serbs, Albanians are too headstrong to take such good advice, preferring to throw away their lives in hopeless battles, rather than fight intelligently. The Communist Party, part of Italy's governing coalition, is financing Albanian's resurgent Stalinists, and is bent on helping old communist Milosevic.