"And just what the devil were you doing in a ground action?"

But the senior official said that it now appeared that ground action was "probably necessary."

"Everyone is prepared to go with the full strategy," a senior official said, referring to ground action that might follow air strikes.

Any ground action could also involve a major assault against determined resistence.

Rod felt his belly twist within him and remembered ground actions.

Almost 300 men of the 101/ had been killed or wounded or were missing in ground actions.

Five allied Arab soldiers were reported killed and 20 wounded in ground action.

In any large-scale ground action, biological weapons, especially, could be devastating.

I don't think he'll rush into ground action knowing that there are black men on the front lines.

The official questioned whether the public would support a major ground action in the third world that involved a large number of American casualties.