PowerScene images used during
the Dayton Accords

CRA Real World Applications - Powerscene

"Commanders know that identifying problems is no longer sufficient; problems must be seen to be solved. "

This is the digital mapping program that U.S. government and Pentagon officials had Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia), Franjo Tudjman (Croatia), and Alija Izetbegovic (Bosnia) play at an airforce base in Ohio to reach the Dayton "peace" accords in 1995. Powerscene was also used in NATO's Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia in 1995. The Dayton agreement instituted the tripartite territorial division of Bosnia into ethnically homogenized enclaves. The u.s.-designed accords effectively legitimized ethnic partition and the violent redrawing of borders through ethnic expulsions in one of the most ethnically mixed areas in the region.

21 Days in Dayton

"WASHINGTON - The wine was drunk, a lavish lobster dinner eaten, and it was time to resolve one of the most delicate issues in the Bosnian peace talks: the creation of a route for the Bosnian government from Sarajevo through Bosnian-Serb territory to the beleaguered Muslim enclave of Gorazde.

President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia made his way to a high-tech auditorium to play Powerscene, the Pentagon's computer mapping program that reproduces terrain on a vast movie screen. The Serbian leader was adamant that the corridor could be no more than two miles wide.

Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the senior American military official at the negotiations, whisked Milosevic off on an imaginary aerial tour of the region to show why such a narrow corridor made no strategic sense. "As you see, God did not put the mountains two miles apart," Clark said.

Milosevic downed a large whisky, considered this geophysical fact, and the deal on a five-mile-wide corridor was consummated. It became known as the "Scotch Road." "