That option would avoid the risk of having American boots on the ground in Pakistan.
"The worst thing we could do is put boots on the ground, " McCain said.
Is the lack of boots on the ground, if you will, leaving an opening for them?
Putting boots on the ground in Iran could cost trillions of dollars and untold lives lost.
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Another problem plaguing Afghanistan is perennial: there are not enough boots on the ground.
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But more foreign boots on the ground will not necessarily save Americans from being killed.
David and I both agree that we cannot put boots on the ground in Libya.
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That could mean UN boots on the ground, and a potentially concerted international response to Syrian non-compliance.
We put more boots on the ground on the southern border than at any time in our history.
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Put another way, forcing an enemy to surrender requires boots on the ground, or at least in the offing.
But yes, right, it does require more boots on the ground to be able to do something like this.
Does CIA assets in Libya equate to -- not count as troops on the ground, boots on the ground?
Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history.
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We learned we needed boots on the ground to sell ideas, not candidates.
But the political appetite for operations involving large numbers of boots on the ground may not recover for a generation.
The reality is that women are already boots on the ground, such as the Female Engagement Teams in Afghanistan.
He has stressed that Britain's role would be limited to bombing from the air and never involve boots on the ground.
Fortunately, much can be done to demonstrate the strategic importance the West attaches to Africa without putting boots on the ground.
After all, if the bad guys are on the run without risking legions of boots on the ground, what's not to like?
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"This business is entirely tied to boots on the ground, " he says.
The generals' mantra that it always takes 'boots on the ground' is not born out by the experience of Kosovo or even Kuwait.
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Let me repeat that: We have more boots on the ground on the Southwest border than at any time in our history.
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Because drone warfare can be pursued without putting any boots on the ground, those interventions have happened with little to no public scrutiny.
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His backers are largely military, which suggests his call to end military involvement overseas has some footing with the boots on the ground.
The experience in Gaza, further, has shown the difficulty of defending against such attacks after the IDF boots on the ground have departed.
If not, it will find that politicians' phones in Warsaw are engaged when it needs boots on the ground in a foreign war.
"The United States must continue a ground presence -- we call it 'boots on the ground' -- along with our allies in Bosnia, " Sen.
Remember the whole Nato policy, of action from the air, was dictated by the insistence that there should be no US "boots on the ground".
This is not a money center bank, but a boots on the ground retail operation serving customers in the states of New Jersey and New York.
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