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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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The Yugoslav ground forces became the target because they
stepped up their killings
after the air war started. Air power was unable to stop them. Furthermore, this thing lasted almost four months when the planners expected it to last days. Definitely not the finest hour of air forcing a decision.