"Boots on the ground" is an all-purpose term used to describe ground forces actually fighting in a war or conflict at the time of speaking, rather than troops not engaged or being transported to the fighting.
"Example:" "The Pentagon may say we have enough, but that's not what I'm hearing from the "boots on the ground"."
It is from this term that journalist
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