Ken Bacon Ground Quotations

The question you all will have is, 'Isn't this a step toward the deployment of ground troops in Kosovo?' ... The answer is, absolutely not. This is pure and simple an expansion of the air operation.

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,

We could have part of an enabling force on the ground in Kosovo within several days of a decision to do so.

There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.