1.   Yet no one wanted to commit troops until ethnic cleansing and exhaustion had run their course.

2.   He should not commit American troops without the full consent of Congress.

3.   Honduras had also committed troops.

4.   Parliamentary approval was not constitutionally required for Mitterrand to commit French troops to combat, since only career soldiers rather than conscripts were involved.

5.   And Clinton, from the generation that split over Vietnam, would want to avoid committing troops overseas, except in rare efforts with allies.

6.   At the time of Kosovo, he used his access to President Clinton to try - unsuccessfully - to persuade him to drop his reluctance to commit ground troops.

7.   A senior U.N. official said intensive diplomatic activity had focused on how to avoid a new war in Croatia without committing troops to protect its borders.

8.   Administration officials emphasized that the president has not made a final decision on committing troops.

9.   After the news conference, Cohen told a reporter that only Clinton could decide whether to commit American troops.

10.   After World War II, the power to commit troops was weighted even more toward the executive branch.