And as Mike Shuster just mentioned, Israel is continuing its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
But he ruled out a ground offensive, which would expose his soldiers to the risks of close-quarters combat.
Pakistan says it cannot launch a ground offensive in North Waziristan because its armed forces are already stretched.
Israel's Prime Minister has signed off on a plan to expand his army's ground offensive in Southern Lebanon as we've just heard.
The BBC's Mark Doyle in Mali says a big international troop build-up is continuing ahead of a probable French-led air and ground offensive on Gao and other desert cities.
Heeding Livni's unwise, defeatist counsel, Olmert postponed the essential ground offensive in south Lebanon until it was too late to make a difference and instead opted for a negotiated cease-fire.
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Israel says it is delaying the expansion of its ground offensive in southern Lebanon to give the UN Security Council more time to come to an agreement on a cease-fire.
An Israeli ground offensive is now almost assured.
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Meanwhile, at least 30 Pakistani soldiers and nearly 100 militants have been killed in fierce fighting in a remote, northwest valley over the past four days following a ground offensive launched by the army, military officials said Monday.
That review, they said, likely will include looking anew at the analysis done last October on what it would take for a major ground combat offensive in Kosovo.
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They would maintain the high ground on spending cuts and remain on the offensive for the next six months.
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