The NATO Intervention in Libya: Lessons learned from the campaign

272 Pages·2013·1.4 MB·English

by  Kjell Engelbrekt

The NATO Intervention in Libya
This book explores ‘lessons learned’ from the military intervention in
Libya by examining key aspects of the 2011 NATO campaign.
NATO’s intervention in Libya had unique features, rendering it
unlikely to serve as a model for action in other situations. There was an
explicit UN Security Council mandate to use military force, a strong Euro-
pean commitment to protect Libyan civilians, Arab League political
endorsement and American engagement in the critical, initial phase of
the air campaign. Although the seven-m onth intervention stretched
NATO’s ammunition stockpiles and political will almost to their respective
breaking points, the definitive overthrow of the Gaddafi regime is univer-
sally regarded as a major accomplishment.
With contributions from a range of key thinkers and analysts in the
field, the book first explains the law and politics of the intervention, start-
ing out with deliberations in NATO and at the UN Security Council, both
noticeably influenced by the concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P).
It then goes on to examine a wide set of military and auxiliary measures
that governments and defence forces undertook in order to increasingly
tilt the balance against the Gaddafi regime and to bring about an end to
the conflict, as well as to the intervention proper, while striving to keep
the number of NATO and civilian casualties to a minimum.
This book will be of interest to students of strategic studies, history and
war studies, and IR in general.
Kjell Engelbrekt is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish
National Defence College and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of
War Sciences.
Marcus Mohlin is a Commander in the Swedish Navy. He also holds a
Ph.D. in Military Sciences and is currently a Researcher at the Swedish
National Defence College.
Charlotte Wagnsson is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish
National Defence College; she received her Ph.D. in Political Science from
Stockholm University.
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