As hundreds more aircraft join NATO's air campaign, a less-noticed array of ground forces is assembling on the southern rim of Yugoslavia, chiefly for humanitarian work. NATO Secretary General Javier Solana said Sunday the allies have no plans to authorize a land invasion. Britain's foreign secretary, Robin Cook, stressed it would take two to three months to prepare an invasion, if one were ordered.
Military experts agree.
By that time, the Serbs are likely to have completed their campaign of ''ethnic cleansing'' - the very acts of violence NATO is striving to stop. Albright said on ABC's This Week . Critics such as presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. I think they expect a NATO invasion,'' Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said. Jovanovic said the United States and NATO should ''draw lessons'' from 26 days' of ''unsuccessful air raids and aggression'' in his country.