…aerial support for Libyan rebels against the wishes of the country’s government and a few months later, the Council passed a similar resolution approving interventionist actions in Cote d’Ivoire. In…
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…that government forces were the source. In terms of a potential chemical weapons deal, the closest historical precedent is the successful dismantling of Libya’s weapons of mass destruction programs in…
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…fires missiles at U.S. planes and the Air Force responds In 1973 Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi stated that Libya had exclusive rights to the entire Gulf of Sidra, in the…
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…2015 study published in the Journal of Peace Research, “Filtering Revolution: Reporting Bias in International Newspaper Coverage of the Libyan Civil War,” analyzes a dataset spanning 113 countries and comprising…
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…“Since Libya in 2011 was an extremely restricted regime with virtually no social media nor an independent press, the recent protests in Libya were unhelpful for ambitious elites, which insulated…
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…or more than doubled compared to the same period a year earlier in all Arab countries except Libya. Citizens in Egypt, Yeman, Bahrain, Libya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Palestine…
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…in which Congress may effectively reassert its constitutional power — and with it more effective democratic control — over the use of military force.” “Military Operations in Libya: No…
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…Libya and beyond. The study, by Merlyna Lim of Arizona State University, looks at why Bouazizi’s death and the demonstrations that followed weren’t as easily dismissed by the authorities as…
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…higher-priority ground combat, as in NATO’s 2011 intervention in Libya and the aerial drone campaign in Pakistan supporting NATO war making in Afghanistan.” “Libya’s Lessons: The Air Campaign” Barrie,…
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The 2011 decision by NATO and the United States to enforce a no-fly zone in Libya was met with both support and concern. The costs of entering another conflict, coupled…
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