Land troops in the Balkans war

WI Bill Clinton got congress to send soldiers to the Balkans after the Srebrenica Massacre?

By soldiers i mean land forces.
 
Details about the massacre were not immediately available, therefore I do not see it happening.

Furthermore Bill Clinton is known to have THE President that rather used cruise missiles and air strikes rather than land troops.
Look at Mogadishu, it took less than 20 dead troops to make the US pull out.

You need a POD that would change his attitude.
 
WI Bill Clinton got congress to send soldiers to the Balkans after the Srebrenica Massacre?

By soldiers i mean land forces.

what for? Croats/Bosniacs and KLA were willing to provide ground troops to do the dirty work if backed by US/NATO airpower that takes out serbian heavy hardware. So no need for US troops.

The only way when US trops could make a difference would be early in OAF when NATO position that no ground troops will be sent to Kosovo allowed FRY to try to stick it out longer. had there been at least declared preparedness to send ground troops Milosevic would see OAF as bigger threat and would back down sooner. There wouldn't have to be actual willingness to do it, jsut troops in place and declaration that they could go to Kosovo.
 
In case of OP? Unlikely and wouldn't have meant much. Srebrenica was in July of 1995. and Dayton peace agreement was in November. NATO was bombing Republika Srpska long before that, if you decided for ground intervention that moment it would still take at least weeks to assemble forces, so it would be unlikely for anything to change untill September and October.


Both for Bosnia and Croatia there were dozens of peace conferences, dozens of cease fires, "peacekeepers" on the ground for most of those bloody 3 years and all of those did jack shit.
 
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