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  Lost Lynx To Leave Libya

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 1:41 PM on Feb 28, 2012

  The Lynx helicopter lost by the Netherlands in Libya a year ago is on its way back home.Netherlands Ministry of Defense photoThe helicopter has been on the beach in Sirte since it ... Read More >>

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  UAE Draws Lessons From Libya Ops

  Posted by Robert Wall 6:10 AM on Nov 12, 2011

  Command-and-control issues are one of the main areas where the United Arab Emirates is drawing lessons from its first out-of-area combat deployment, when it provided Dassault Mirag... Read More >>

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  French Numbers from Libya

  Posted by Christina Mackenzie 5:50 PM on Nov 03, 2011

  The French Defense Ministry today issued some figures from what the French had codenamed “Opération Harmattan” in Libya. Involved in the Libyan mission were five... Read More >>

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  Libyan Anti-Aircraft Missiles Disappear and Now the Search Is On

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 9:15 AM on Oct 05, 2011

  There are lots of empty SA-24 Grinch anti-aircraft missile shipping crates left in Libyan military warehouses. U.S. officials are still investigating whether they had been emptied ... Read More >>

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  AfriCom Keeps Some Combat UAVs From the Libya Campaign

  Posted by David A. Fulghum 8:56 AM on Oct 05, 2011

  Africa Command is going to keep the UAVs and other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft it gained control of for the Libyan campaign — at least for a ... Read More >>

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  Libya: Putting the Military Back Together Again

  Posted by Robert Wall 10:03 AM on Sep 13, 2011

  Even though NATO's military campaign in Libya is not yet over,  policy makers are starting to look at what comes next.One of the main tasks will be rebuilding the Libyan milit... Read More >>

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  NATO Boss Addresses Command and Capabilty Gaps

  Posted by Robert Wall 3:39 PM on Sep 12, 2011

  The Libya campaign has already yielded important lessons for NATO, both in terms of equipment needs and structure, signals Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance's secretary general.S... Read More >>

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  NATO's Role In Post-Conflict Libya

  Posted by Nicholas Fiorenza 3:42 PM on Aug 31, 2011

  Analysts at the NATO Defense College in Rome see a possible alliance role in security sector reform and helping plan the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in post-conflict ... Read More >>

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  France, U.S. Dominate Libya Air Strikes

  Posted by Robert Wall 2:34 PM on Aug 23, 2011

  With the fighting in Libya now shifting largely to Tripoli, the Atlantic Council has compiled an interesting tally of what air forces contributed most to the NATO air operation.Acc... Read More >>

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  Libya: Lots of Action, Little Reaction

  Posted by Robert Wall 10:55 AM on Aug 11, 2011

  In an update on operations in Libya, the U.K. defense ministry puts out the following numbers:NATO has hit more than 4,200 targetsRoyal Navy, RAF, and U.K. Army Air Corp have struc... Read More >>

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