That same study also laid the groundwork for military benefits for same-sex military couples, admitting that no other issue area "consume[d] as much time and effort" in the report.
Western diplomats fear that Mr. Milosevic is not merely creating a sense of threat to help his election campaign, but may also be laying the groundwork for military or police action in Montenegro to bring down Mr. Djukanovic.
The administration's focus on Iran has raised alarms among the war's staunchest critics, who accuse the White House of overstating the threat and laying the groundwork for military action against Iran.
The United States should be prepared to make firm commitments in all these areas now in return for Israel's agreement to postpone any attack until next year — a delay that could be used to exhaust diplomatic options and lay the groundwork for military action if diplomacy failed.
Meanwhile officials in Washington DC are laying the groundwork for military operations.
They said they had not come to lay the groundwork for a military deployment.
The question was whether the Administration expected the Iranians to agree, or was laying the diplomatic groundwork for future military action.
The agreement also laid the groundwork for NATO military action in Kosovo in 1999, which has since led to the province's independence.
Thus was laid the groundwork for a military response, though few could have imagined then that 10 years would pass with the United States locked in not one but two conflicts of deepening unpopularity.
