placing boots on the ground causes a lot of collateral civilian casualties (look at, for example, Iraq civilian casualties) and make the people hate invaders an

placing boots on the ground causes a lot of collateral civilian casualties (look at, for example, Iraq civilian casualties) and make the people hate invaders and leads to insurgency. The "Black Hawk down" i mentioned is a real story of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_%281993%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mogadishu_%281993%29 where USA had 19 KIA and 83 WIA, and Somalis - anywhere between 300 and 2000. A precision hit to the building which was the original target in the Battle of Mogadishu would cause much less casualties on the both sides (and much less fossil fuel burned). >You don't win a war with just an air campaign. You still need boots on the ground to go after people. that is just a generic slogan.