Saturday, March 26, 2011

RAF and Ajdabiya

Telegraph: Reports on the RAF strikes of Gaddafi Security Forces in the Eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya. This is helping the rebels, but the real problem is with the urban fighting on the ground, what are the Allies going to do about the snipers and ground troops that Gaddafi has sent in to Ajdabiya and Misrata in the West of Libya. An Air War cant not remove Gaddafi, the Allies and in this case we are talking about the UK and France will have to plan for small scale boots on the ground operation, the Allies cant wait for the rebels in the East to form a proper Army, and to be quite frank this blog could care less what the Arab League thinks about such an operation, in less they will also give troops. In the past the US could have pushed Egypt to take action but that country has it own internal mess to deal with, thus the Allies cant wait forever for the rebels to win, they might not want boots on the ground but they might just have to swallow that harsh pill. This would be small scale operation, no long term occupation, in and out in military terms, get Gaddafi and leave the Libyans to decide their own future. The Allies, the UK and France should not count on POTUS, he is not a real War Leader, he is no JFK or Reagan.

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