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WASHINGTON - At least 100,000 heavily armed troops would need six weeks or more to come to the aid of Kosovo's civilians and up to six more months to defeat Yugoslav forces, some former military planners estimate. "I think we could get them out of Kosovo province if we had the ground troops," said retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly, who was director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Persian Gulf War. "But we've still got a situation where the president has said he will not send ground troops into Kosovo. And we cannot have the decision made for us by CNN."

Retired Gen. Frederick "Fritz" Kroesen, former commander in chief of U.S. Army forces in Europe and a former vice chief of staff of the Army, said putting ground troops into Kosovo would be complex. "When you decide to put ground forces in, you're not engaging in any simple operation," Kroesen said. "It's not going to be done with one brigade or one division. We're talking in terms of 100,000 or more troops."

Even before NATO began airstrikes against Yugoslavia in hopes of forcing President Slobodan Milosevic to make peace with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, President Clinton and other leaders agreed they would put troops on the ground only to enforce a peace agreement.

The U.S. commitment was to supply about 4,000 of 28,000 troops who would enforce an agreement once the Albanians in Kosovo and Yugoslavia made peace. "As the president said, we have no intention of using ground troops except after the signing of a peacekeeping agreement," Defense Department spokesman Kenneth Bacon repeated Monday.

Bacon said that in discussions among NATO planners last fall of how force might be used in Kosovo, "it was determined it would take 200,000 troops to invade and occupy Kosovo."

The idea was dropped, he said, because "there was no support within NATO for a massive ground operation."

But with Milosevic showing no signs of surrender after nearly a week of bombing, and with reports of increasing atrocities against ethnic Albanians by his forces in Kosovo, some Republicans in Congress and other critics have begun suggesting that NATO reconsider. "The only thing that will get Milosevic's attention is the real prospect that you're going to sweep his troops out of Kosovo and stay there to keep them out," said Lord David Owen, a former British foreign secretary and Bosnia peace negotiator.

Military experts familiar with what it would take to back up such a threat said it would take anywhere from six weeks to three months to get the troops necessary to the region and get them ready to fight. "There is no magic military bullet here," Bacon said. "Even if a decision by some NATO countries was made to deploy ground troops from parts of Europe into Kosovo, it would take a long while."

Others agreed that even if most of the soldiers were sent by NATO allies in Europe, and Albania let them use its territory as a staging area, the forces might require two or more weeks to get there.

Once in the region, the troops would need additional time to get organized, perform reconnaissance and train for specific combat missions.

Kelly noted that the U.S.-led alliance that fought the Gulf War needed five months to get 542,000 troops to Saudi Arabia and prepare them for the ground assault on Iraqi troops.

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