Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
- On the military level, how feasible will it be to defend Benghazi without committing foreign ground forces? What is the likely mix between land/air/sea, and between direct intervention and aid/supplies/training?
I would like to ask the guys with experience a technical question. How feasible is it to stop the advance on Benghazi by disrupting the coastal road supply line with multiple small groups of pickup trucks mounted with heavy machine guns? The road is very long and very open to the south so it would seem difficult to protect even if adequate forces are available. The dictator doesn't seem to have a surfeit of reliable troops.

The rebels may be more capable of that kind of action also. It wouldn't involve standing and taking artillery fire and air strikes. It would involve driving through the desert a long way and falling upon supply convoys when they were weak. How much training would it require?

There aren't a whole lot of airplanes to hunt them down, you can't see much from jets anyway.

Anyway, if anybody could comment on that I would be very interested.