Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While there was a general consensus among panelists that ground troops were required in Kosovo, there was little agreeement on what could be done after that...
Panelists last night agreed that there would be no easy solution to the current crisis, but said that NATO should send ground troops into Kosovo to prevent what some panelists called the "genocide" taking place there...
...could Washington be so naive that you could win such a thing with an air strike? Impossible! Why did Clinton declare on TV that we would not send in ground troops? Of course we should go in, we are much too late," said Ruud Lubbers, a former prime minister of the Netherlands...
Steven Van Evera, a professor of political science at MIT, said that air campaigns were historically ineffective without accompanying ground forces to prevent enemy troops from scattering...
...record is stunningly clear. Air forces cannot get at an opponent on the ground unless accompanying troops force [the opponent] to concentrate in a particular area," Van Evera said...