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2011-03-02 Africa North

Gaddafi Sends Army to Thwart Any U.S. Invasion

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Posted by Fred 2011-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Again, IMO Muammar is wary that Radical Islam will roll back time + regress Libyuh unto histor backwardness.

IMO HE WANTS TO SEE A DEAL, + NOT-A-DEAL WHERE HE IS THE ONLY ONE MAKING MAJOR CONCESSIONS???

NO DEAL = THE US-ALLIES WILL HAVE TO KILL HIM OR COVERTLY ASSASSINATE HIM, ETC. TO REMOVE HIM FROM POWER.

NO DEAL = HE'S FINE-N-DANDY HAPPY WID ORDERING BRUTAL/ BLOODY REPRESSION AGZ THE REBELS, Killin' + Scorch-Earthin', Pillagin' + Murderin', everywhere he + Army goes.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-02 00:36|| 2011-03-02 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Bad move deploying them on the border, they can simply desert over the border. To gauge the effectiveness of Momo's army, remember that he had to bring in mercs to suppress riots in his capital, his pilots refused to bomb or defected to Italy, and I am pretty sure the Navy will sit this one out.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2011-03-02 11:10|| 2011-03-02 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem with mercenary troops, as the Italians discovered long ago, is that they're, well, mercenary. They tend to be more interested in getting paid than in dying gloriously for "the cause"...

Posted by mojo 2011-03-02 11:17|| 2011-03-02 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Cyber Sarge,
Actually his navy already left for Cyprus and Greece.

The quality of his army can be gaged from the fact that the rebels have already retaken the territory they lost.

As for the mercenaries, they seem to be from Zaire and the losers of the latest Chadian civil war. (How bad do you have to be to lose a war in Chad?)

Posted by Frozen Al 2011-03-02 12:01|| 2011-03-02 12:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh look. Gaddafi sends us targets. Ya know pal, they wouldn't even be a speed bump. Our tanks and APCs would destroy them while maintaining full throttle.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-02 13:07|| 2011-03-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 mojo:The problem with mercenary troops, as the Italians discovered long ago...

Read your Machiavelli again, from the Varangian Guard to the Black & Tans it is mercenary commanders that cause the problems -- the mercenaries themselves can be very useful indeed. No local entanglements when you need an outsider to do a nasty job and then leave town afterwards...

Frozen Al: IIRC, from Pollack's Arabs At War covering the Chad War the northern tribe allied to the Libyans was crucial to their early successes. Tough light infantry that handled all of the Libyan scouting and flank security. When they left, because of the usual dance of tribal loyalty/betrayal down there, the Libyans wandered blind into ambush after ambush.

Posted by magpie 2011-03-02 18:27|| 2011-03-02 18:27|| Front Page Top

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