Gaddafi finished, plenty more to go
The Arab League is an organisation whose 22 members are mainly the artificial states set up when the Ottoman empire collapsed in 1918 at the end of WW1. These states […]
Benghazi
Libya endgame
Whilst rebel leaders were feted in London and Washington, Gaddafi was just holding on to power. The government goons in Tripoli in their Toyota pickups are failing to hold the […]
Arab spring attention fatigue
The main job of British newspapers is to sell newspapers. The main job of the broadcast news services is to take customers away from other broadcast news services, ratings matter […]
Mission creep in Libya
Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]
Libya, a time for diplomacy
The Libyan coastal strip is a strange place to conduct a war, the distances are vast and there is nothing there but desert and a few small towns that are […]