1.   As Clark held his consultations in Macedonia and Albania, a senior Yugoslav commander told Serb reporters that NATO would suffer heavy losses if it launched a ground invasion.

2.   Because Germany, then, would not back a ground invasion, a political solution was needed to avoid a hugely damaging rift in NATO.

3.   Binac says that a NATO ground invasion would be superfluous.

4.   A ground invasion?

5.   A second option was to mount an all-out ground invasion to rid Chechnya of the rebels once and for all.

6.   Did he not realize that only a real threat of ground invasion might force Milosevic to agree to the Rambouillet accords in time?

7.   For that reason, Milosevic is counting on the continuing refusal of President Clinton to sanction a costly ground invasion.

8.   Germany and Italy oppose ground troops, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder this week said there would be no ground invasion.

9.   Had there been a ground invasion, it would almost certainly have been led by American troops, with the British and probably the French accompanying.

10.   It has been reported that it will take six to eight weeks to even prepare for a ground invasion.