Libya

Libya

With its proximity to Europe, its significant oil reserves, and its strategic importance to the stability of the North Africa region, the ongoing turmoil in Libya is a concern for the United States and its allies. Rival factions serving as proxies to competing regional powers continue to destabilize the country and hamper any national dialogue efforts. The role of the United States and Europe will be essential in encouraging dialogue, supporting the arms embargo, and contributing to any post-war economic revitalization plan.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 24, 2011

Learning Lessons from the Splendid Little War in Libya

By Jeffrey Lightfoot

NATO’s intervention in Libya looks easy in retrospect, now that Muammar Gaddafi is on the run from victorious rebel forces. No US or NATO forces were shot down over the skies in Libya and no US boots were put on the ground. America’s European allies and partners carried a heavy share of the burden in […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 24, 2011

Libya, Egypt, and Syria: “The LES Countries”

By Harlan Ullman

The term “BRICs” is a virtual cliche. Brazil, Russia, India and China were lumped together as the globe’s “emerging” economic dynamos. Now, if even handedness applies to politics, we should declare the “LES” countries, drawn together by public rebellion against decades of autocratic rule. Libya, Egypt and Syria are the charter members. Whether what happens […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2011

Libya Not NATO Comeback

By Kurt Volker

One can only cheer at what now seems to be the removal of Muammar al-Qaddafi from power, at the hands of his own long-abused people. And one must commend the NATO special forces and air power — particularly from Britain, France, and the United States — which helped bring about this outcome.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 23, 2011

Libya After Gaddafi: Lessons From Iraq 2003

By James Joyner

The end of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime appears near. Regardless of one’s views on the wisdom of American intervention, that’s cause for celebration.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

The End of Gaddafi Isn’t the End of the Argument

By James Joyner

Is it time for those who criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the Libya intervention to eat crow?

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

Libya: Implementing the Peace

By Julian Lindley-French

Funny how history plays games. On this day in England in 1485 King Richard III lost the battle of Bosworth Field to Henry Tudor. The rest, as they say is history. In Shakespeare’s play the defeated king pleads for a horse so he can flee. I would imagine Colonel (soon-to-be retired) Gaddafi probably wishes for […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2011

NATO Proves Critics Wrong

By Barry Pavel

The naysayers were in abundance during this long, hot summer in Washington, Brussels, and other major capitals. They said that NATO’s no-fly zone, and the rebel military operations in Libya which NATO was aiding, were ineffective. NATO was running out of ammunition.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 21, 2011

Libya: Carpe Diem Europe!

By Julian Lindley-French

 “No-one starts a war-or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so-without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.” Karl von Clausewitz  Make no mistake; what is happening in Libya right now has the most profound of grand strategic […]

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New Atlanticist

Aug 12, 2011

Under NATO’s Flag: an Interim Assessment of the Mission in Libya (Part Three)

By Vladimir Socor

As in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Western coalition intervened in Libya with only a weak grasp of the local society.

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New Atlanticist

Aug 11, 2011

Responsibility to Protect? Sometimes

By Derek Reveron

The latest Syrian assault on its population and international reactions to it has once again raised the question, what does the “responsibility to protect”(R2P) mean in practice?

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