When Muammar Gaddafi was toppled the bastion he built crumbled too. Who can restore national unity now?What precisely was toppled in Libya with the overthrow of Muammar Gadaffi? A dictator,or a working power structure? It was utterly predictable that military intervention would be a fiasco. Sadly the lessons of the Iraq war did not alert Nato leaders to the disastrous consequences of their punitive mission.
Western military strategists had, of course, and identified the nerve centres they would need to target to bring down their enemy. They made detailed appraisals of Gaddafi’s defensive strongholds,his air bases, listening stations, or electronic warfare and communications networks,tank regiments, ground troops, and planning and command centres,logistics hubs, key infrastructure and administration. Everything.
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Source: theguardian.com