Answer to "How much planning did the no fly zone take?"

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The operation against Libya took considerable planning including agreements on overflight, asset use, airfield and command agreements and all the other international relations that have to get sorted out before countries cooperate on such things.

In a lucky coincidence, operation the French/English air strike exercise "Southern Storm" was already planned out and scheduled to start March 21 to simulate an air strike on a country south of France.

For those not sure of what places are south of France, please go check your atlases now.

Southern Mistral / Southern Storm
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
For those not sure of what places are south of France, please go check your atlases now.
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Monaco?
Algeria??
Niger?
Nigeria?
Mali?
Burkina Faso?
Benin?
Togo?
Ghana?
Cote d'Iviore?
Cameroon?
Malabo?
Gabon?
Republic of the Congo?
Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Angola?
Namibia?
South Africa?
Antarctica?
 
metalman said:
FluffyMcDeath said:
For those not sure of what places are south of France, please go check your atlases now.
Click to expand...
Monaco?
Algeria??
Niger?
Nigeria?
Mali?
Burkina Faso?
Benin?
Togo?
Ghana?
Cote d'Iviore?
Cameroon?
Malabo?
Gabon?
Republic of the Congo?
Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Angola?
Namibia?
South Africa?
Antarctica?
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Sorry, did I wake you? Please, just go back to sleep. There's nothing to worry your sleepy head about here.
 
On November 2, 2010 France and Great Britain signed a mutual defence treaty, which included joint participation in "Southern Mistral" (www.southern-mistral.cdaoa.fr), a series of war games outlined in the bilateral agreement. Southern Mistral involved a long-range conventional air attack, called Southern Storm, against a dictatorship in a fictitious southern country called Southland. The joint military air strike was authorised by a pretend United Nations Security Council Resolution. The "Composite Air Operations" were planned for the period of 21-25 March, 2011. On 20 March, 2011, the United States joined France and Great Britain in an air attack against Gaddafi's Libya, pursuant to UN Security Council resolution 1973.

Have the scheduled war games simply been postponed, or are they actually under way...
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I had no idea about this but, depressingly, it doesn't really surprise me.
 
Putin:

The coalition said destroying Gaddafi was not their goal. Then why bomb his palaces? Now some officials have claimed that eliminating him was in fact their goal. Who gave them that right? Did he have a fair trial?

Returning to the no-fly zone, the bombings are destroying the country's entire infrastructure. When the so called civilized world uses all its military power against a small country destroying what's been created by generations I don't know if that's good.

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That's a very good point by Mr Putin. However, before Obama or Cameron answer that question, I would love to hear Putin's response to the same question regarding Chechnya. Who gave Russia the right to invade and occupy Chechnya?
 
Glaucus said:
Who gave Russia the right to invade and occupy Chechnya?
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Who gave Chechnya permission to leave the union? :)

Be that as it may, the "coalition" asked permission to enact a no-fly zone. Under that authority they are try to kill Qaddafi. Having availed themselves of international law the coalition are now flouting that same authority. A unilateral action would have been merely that, a unilateral action. Russia claims Chechnya is an internal dispute, and however wobbly that may be, there is some history behind that. Obviously the coalition cannot claim the same thing so they went through the security council but having done that they are now undermining that same body by acting unilaterally. While the campaign against Chechnya significantly impacts Chechnya, mission creep in Libya impacts all nations who are members of the UN.
 
Good thing the rebels set up an oil company so quick. Now,
The United States on Wednesday authorized Americans to buy oil from Libyan rebels, easing sanctions to open a stream of funding to opponents of Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi.
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Clever, eh?

Rebel(US) owned oil company - so much easier to deal with than Libyan state owned oil field. Also much more profitable, for the US.
 
The plan keeps on unfolding - though it's running into resistance.

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