That's true even if the war is small and limited. The air campaign in Yugoslavia was conceived as a brief, surgical strike on Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his murderous military and paramilitary forces. After bombing and re-bombing all the strictly military sites it could find, without inducing Milosevic to surrender, NATO expanded its list to include facilities whose destruction will do the most harm to civilians. NATO is also planning a naval blockade to cut off Serbia's oil supplies. Rail lines have been severed, industrial plants flattened and bridges demolished.
Travel is hazardous, and just getting to work can be nearly impossible.
Well, so has Bill Clinton, but NATO hasn't fired any cruise missiles at the White House. The alliance deserves some credit for clearly going out of its way to minimize direct civilian casualties. It also can be excused if some strikes unavoidably kill non-combatants. The apparent goal is to inflict so much pain as to force Milosevic to change his policies or to force his people to change rulers. He may not get an argument from German Gen. Klaus Naumann, chairman of NATO's military committee, who says Yugoslavia has been set back economically by 10 years and figures that the air campaign could eventually turn the clock back half a century.