The Cauldron
NATO's Campaign in Libya
In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without troops on the ground; it also had never had to move as quickly as it did that spring. It took seven months, 25,000 air sorties, 7,000 combat strike missions, 3,100 maritime hailings and nearly 400 boardings for Tripoli to fall. This book tells for the first time the whole story of this international drama, spanning the hallways of the United Nations in New York, NATO Headquarters in Brussels and, crucially, the two operational epicentres: the Libya…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gaub, Florence
- ISBN: 978-0-19-005016-0
- EAN: 9780190050160
- Produktnummer: 35942327
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
Über den Autor
Rob Weighill is a retired major-general and independent consultant operating in strategic risk, resilience and defence. He spent five years at NATO's multinational headquarters in Naples, led the planning of NATO's Libyan intervention and directed operations from Joint Force Command.Florence Gaub is a senior analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies; previously, she was employed at NATO Defense College. Her first book, Guardians of the Arab State: When Militaries Intervene in Politics, from Iraq to Mauritania, also available from Oxford University Press.
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