LIBYAN CIVIL WAR AND INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION IN 2011 - ATTITUDES OF THE PEOPLE OF LIBYA AND THE WEST
Journal Title: Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces - Year 2012, Vol 163, Issue 1
Abstract
The outbreak of the civil war in Libya was part of the ‘Arab Spring’: a series of instances of Arab societies against non-democratic authorities of their countries. From the per-spective of the West, it is another conflict after the Cold War era, one in which there are no two conventional armies fighting against each other, but its start is ‘asymmetric’. The Gaddafi regime's bloody crackdown on insurgents made the international community stand in the defence of the civilian population. At the same time, with the experience of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there was reluctance to deploy western troops in Libya. It was clearly shown in the public opinion polls: Gaddafi was being condemned and Libyan civilians were being supported, but it was refused to expose the West to military losses. Libyan rebels also demanded more armament rather than reinforcing their forces with foreign army units. Therefore, the intervention of Western countries in Libya took the form acceptable to the public: air attacks on the forces loyal to Gaddafi.
Authors and Affiliations
Paweł TURCZYŃSKI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP61403
- DOI -
- Views 94
- Downloads 0
CONDITIONS FOR OBTAINING LICENSES FOR TRADE IN WEAPONS, AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES
Trafficking in weapons, ammunition and explosives is the activity that is specific, rare, strictly regulated, requiring a license and subject to a detailed inspection by the state authorities in the Polish legal system....
ANTHROPOLOGY AT WAR. HISTORY AND PRESENT TIME OF INVOLVEMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN MILITARY CONFLICTS
The US Army officially decided to mobilize anthropologists for the project of the Human Terrain System for counterinsurgency war. Since 2007 the US Department of Defense have been employing social scientists in combat br...
SPECIFICITY OF MARKETING MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIZATION IN CRISIS
The article presents selected problems of marketing management that are essential for managing an organization in a crisis. An attempt is made at systematizing activities serving to shape the readiness of an organization...
OPTIMISING COMBAT TRACKED VEHICLE MAINTENANCE WITH RCM
The article deals with the application of the RCM methodology in this case of combat tracked vehicles used in the Czech Republic Armed Forces and with the problems which appeared during the project, and it describes proc...
PODOBIEŃSTWA I RÓŻNICE KOMPLEKSOWYCH STRUKTUR ROZGRYWAJĄCYCH PARAMETRYCZNIE W BADANIU WŁASNOŚCI DYNAMICZNYCH UKŁADÓW MASZYNOWYCH
W opracowaniu przedstawiono zastosowanie grafów zależności i drzew rozgrywających parametrycznie do analizy i syntezy własności dynamicznych układów maszynowych. Podano rozkłady grafu od różnych wierzchołków początkowych...