The new Libya: various aspects

[davidbfpo]

The title of a recent Washington Quarterly article by a French adviser on foreign affairs; which ends with:

As much as myths about the 2011 intervention should be debunked, we still have lessons to learn.

Link:https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/tw...016_Vilmer.pdf

Topical as today a House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has issued a critical report on David Cameron over the intervention. Citing one report which starts with:

David Cameron’s intervention in Libya was carried out with no proper intelligence analysis, drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country....

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...a-intervention