Despite this week end NATO success and Daffy announcemet he agrees on a cease fire, what strikes me in this Lybia story is our (modern state) incapacity to deal with popular uprising.
It is clear now that we just do not know, want or can deal with non-state actors, even if it's a population and not an armed group.
The main reproch made to the Lybian population is to not be organised as a government. Basically we have not evolved, what ever we say, since cold war. Tactics and technics have but States are still limited by their obligation to deal with a State, is it legitimate or not.
I really think that we (at least this SWJ community) have to start thinking in depth on this.
Mod's Note: a new thread 'Popular rebellion, state response and our failure to date: a debate' has been created at M-A L's suggestion:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=13002
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