From that article: > The intervention did not employ foreign ground troops. I'm no military theorist, but "foreign boots on the ground" is the lay-person's de

From that article: > The intervention did not employ foreign ground troops. I'm no military theorist, but "foreign boots on the ground" is the lay-person's definition of an "invasion". Absent that, it could have been a war, a police action, a military intervention, or a bombing campaign, but it wasn't an "invasion".