Military Prowess of Libya’s Rebels
The battle for Tripoli was an amazingly complex operation involving coordinated uprisings, an amphibious assault from the sea, as well as conventional attacks, supported by NATO airpower. The complexity has astonished miltary analysts, including Shashank Joshi of the Royal United Services Institute in London. Marco Werman reviews the fighting with him.
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