As Secretary of Defense Cohen played a large role in directing the United States military actions in Iraq and Kosovo , including the dismissal of Wesley Clark from his post as the NATO Supreme Allied Commander . Both Operation Desert Fox in Iraq and Operation Allied Force in Kosovo were launched just months after al-Qaeda carried out the United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania , and Nairobi , Kenya , in 1998
United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
William Cohen