Mr. Morden
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« on: November 26, 2011, 05:30:40 AM » |
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Would an air war alone really have had this kind of impact in Darfur?
It seems like Libya was one of the rare cases in which an intervention of this kind could actually work, because: 1) Much of the fighting involved tanks and other heavy equipment that one could bomb from the air. You can't really do something like this from the air if people are just fighting with machetes. 2) Many of the major population centers are separated by vast distances, so if Qaddafi's forces wanted to move on to the next city, they greatly exposed themselves to attack from the air.
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