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Confusion All the Way Down

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Well, this doesn’t seem very bloody impressive:

As the military operation continued over Libya on Monday, there was some confusion about which country or organization is actually leading it, and for how long. France, Britain and the United States are in charge of their own operations, which each have different code names.

The participants are being “coordinated” by the United States, but not commanded by it, according to the French Defense Ministry. The Americans, with the most assets, seem to be the lead coordinator, but Washington has said it wants to step back after the initial phase and have NATO take charge of maintaining a no-fly zone and arms embargo.

Britain wants NATO to take over but France does not, and Italy is threatening to rethink its participation unless NATO takes command.

Apparently, some of the early French attacks weren’t coordinated with the UK and US attacks, which is why we saw French planes hitting Libyan tanks before US cruise missiles hit the air defense network. It’s becoming clear that there’s no agreement whatsoever regarding the goals of the war, and that there’s not even much agreement on how it should be conducted.

…and to be sure, the behavior of the Arab League should have been utterly predictable to anyone vaguely familiar with either the politics of the League or the incentives facing its members.

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