Precision NATO Air Strikes in Libya - The Other Side of Counter-insurgency

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Neil Waghorn
Neil Waghorn
06/21/2011

Faced with ongoing NATO air attacks, the Gaddafi regime has increasingly been using tactics more commonly associated with insurgency groups and rebellions rather than developed states. NATO precision strikes offer the capability to prevent an effective pro-Gaddafi insurgency from developing. Deprived of the use of its air force by a UN no-fly zone and unable to mass its forces in the face of daily NATO strikes, Gaddafi forces are resorting to asymmetric and even un-sanctioned tactics: a car...
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