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Originally Posted by citanon
But couldn't one argue that Yugoslav ground forces were the wrong target anyways. What won the fight, at the end of the day, without ground forces having to fire a single shot, was the economic destruction and the resulting political fallout for the Yugoslav leadership.
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What were the goals of the operation? A win is certainly the desired outcome, but was it really in question, i.e., NATO vs. Serbia? It is best to look at the factual and then determine the counterfactual. One problem in this case was the fact that ground forces were taken off of the table early on, meaning that it would be harder to get at the targets since they didn't have to deploy to counter a possible ground threat, but it's still the analysis that needs to be done.