But Clinton is hanging back, and Pentagon officers, who oppose any ground war, will keep advising him against one.
Bold as Smith may be with the ground war, he cannot ignore the recession that started in the third quarter.
Like Clinton, powerful members of Congress believe Americans are not willing to make the sacrifices required by a Balkan ground war.
Western public opinion, it was believed, had no stomach for the sorts of casualties that a ground war would have entailed.
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After 38 days, we got to a point where we could launch the ground war and, by that time, they hadn't withdrawn.
While Schwarzkopf's leadership was heralded, critics raised questions about the decision to quickly end the ground war in Iraq and leave Hussein in power.
But in a week packed with the furious skirmishes of a post-PC ground war, Apple is most likely refurbishing its computers and shaving a few inches off its tablet.
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If the allies had looked readier for a ground war earlier this year to back up their threatened air strikes, Mr Milosevic might have been slower to pick a fight and keener to talk peace.
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Some Internet-security experts believe that the Georgia conflict marks the first time a known cyberattack has coincided with a ground war, but others said that similar computer attacks have accompanied military operations in the Middle East and elsewhere.
White House aides privately hoped the new NATO assessment would call for so many troops to invade--perhaps up to 150, 000 in Kosovo alone--that it would scare off ground-war advocates.
Since I had spent nearly two and a half years on the ground during the war, I was invited.
Then the two companies slapped each other silly in a price war that ground down profit margins at both companies.
If not, it will find that politicians' phones in Warsaw are engaged when it needs boots on the ground in a foreign war.
The bike and run course took the race into Manchester and Trafford, passing the Old Trafford football ground, the Imperial War Museum North and Manchester's Albert Square.
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Under the strategic circumstances of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, all that was necessary was to ensure the survivability of nuclear forces because very little could survive on the ground should a nuclear war erupt.
Throughout a whole century the American people stood liberty's ground not just in one world war but in two.
To field them will be more expensive than fielding less miraculous weapons, which cannot simply be abandoned lest an enemy exploit the transition, and which will remain as indispensable as the rifleman holding his ground, because the nature of war is counter-miraculous.
The American public, showing real signs of war weariness after two ground wars over more than a decade, is unlikely to be enthusiastic about a military confrontation with Iran that is likely to be far more costly and indeterminate than either Iraq or Afghanistan.
Soldier and Marine family members who knew about this program, and the very real challenges it faces in accomplishing change within the military, asked for a way to communicate better the gap in equipment our young Soldiers and Marines need on the ground in a new kind of war and peacekeeping.
After all, America's most hallowed ground is the final resting place for war heroes, astronauts, even a U.S. president.
This week the Swedish government signed an accord with the authorities in Baghdad, permitting the return of failed asylum-seekers, on the ground that Iraq is no longer a war zone.
Many Americans don't think it was a wise choice, going down with such infamous moments as Lyndon Johnson's decision to Americanize the Vietnam War with an escalation of ground troops in 1965.
But Mr Blair is conscious that in defence matters, Britain, France and Germany may have little choice but to work together more closely, given America's recent reluctance to commit any more ground troops to Europe's potential war zones.
Mr. MALLEY: Well, it certainly sounds like war, and I'm sure that for the people on the ground, whether in Lebanon or in Israel it's feeling very much like war, when you have a naval and sea blockade, when you have air strikes, when you have katyusha rockets fired into Israel.
The carrier-based Prowler aircraft that jammed Taliban ground communications have their origins in the Korean War.
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