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>It took Bill Clinton 78 days to force Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the killing of Kosovars through a bombing campaign that, if accompanied by t
by squozzer 9y ago
>It took Bill Clinton 78 days to force Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to stop the killing of Kosovars through a bombing campaign that, if accompanied by the threat of ground forces, might have done the job in hours.
I think a common argument against a ground war at the time was that it took the German Wehrmacht 30 divisions to "pacify" the Balkans. Even then partisans (e.g. Josip Tito) were making life miserable for the occupation.