[QUOTE=RAG Frag;30880346]Is Sudan looking to have their army wiped by air strikes?[/QUOTE]
Unless the Sudanese military is hopelessly feckless like Iraq's, then air power will not "wipe out entire armies". "Fighting" from the air does have serious limitations, which can be witnessed in the damage NATO air forces did in Operation Allied Force. Air power without a ground component doesn't work.
[QUOTE=Tac Error;30880915]Unless the Sudanese military is hopelessly feckless like Iraq's, then air power will not "wipe out entire armies". "Fighting" from the air does have serious limitations, which can be witnessed in the damage NATO air forces did in Operation Allied Force. Air power without a ground component doesn't work.[/QUOTE]
It was kind of a stupid thing to say but I didn't mean it literally.
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[QUOTE=GunFox;30880638]NATO is currently at the helm (as opposed to the United States during the early portion), and I imagine NATO is going to be pretty conservative in its approach. It may even elect to do nothing.
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They are looking to hand over the reigns to the rebels as soon as possible without any other complications?
[QUOTE=Tac Error;30880915]Unless the Sudanese military is hopelessly feckless like Iraq's, then air power will not "wipe out entire armies". "Fighting" from the air does have serious limitations, which can be witnessed in the damage NATO air forces did in Operation Allied Force. Air power without a ground component doesn't work.[/QUOTE]
True, but they can be bombed to the point that they realize that an incursion into Libya is simply not worth the sacrifice.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;30887429]True, but they can be bombed to the point that they realize that an incursion into Libya is simply not worth the sacrifice.[/QUOTE]
NATO has used up quite a lot of its precision-guided weapons stock against Gaddafi. Other writers and analysts have noted this weakness too. I remember somebody writing that "NATO lacks big-war staying power. In fact, we’ve just learned that key NATO powers don’t even have much small-war staying power, if hi-tech weapons are required. The greatest embarrassment arising from the slow-roll campaign in Libya isn’t that Qaddafi’s still in power, but that the Brits and French quickly ran low on precision-guided weapons. Weeks ago, the Brits had to rush-purchase additional cruise missiles from the U.S. Now other weapons stocks are emptying fast."
And I refer to [url=http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/techy.htm][b]this[/b][/url] article with the text under the heading "The copious bleeding option". That is, [b]*if*[/b] Sudan tries anything.
Oh great, clusterfuck.
Fucking Sudan, why do they have to go into Libya. Shits going down all over northern Africa.
I've said ti before and I'll say it again. Italy should just launch a full invasion of Libya because Gadaffi declared war on them. They have a just and lawful reason to do it.
Great, now something more escalating in Africa.
[QUOTE=Itsjustguy;30880606]Anyone else think that we are going to have a massive clusterfuck that will become a war ?[/QUOTE]
It's not a war yet because they're not shooting back, right?
This is probably a form of revenge for this [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%E2%80%93Sudanese_conflict[/url]
[QUOTE=Tac Error;30887538]NATO has used up quite a lot of its precision-guided weapons stock against Gaddafi. Other writers and analysts have noted this weakness too. I remember somebody writing that "NATO lacks big-war staying power. In fact, we’ve just learned that key NATO powers don’t even have much small-war staying power, if hi-tech weapons are required. The greatest embarrassment arising from the slow-roll campaign in Libya isn’t that Qaddafi’s still in power, but that the Brits and French quickly ran low on precision-guided weapons. Weeks ago, the Brits had to rush-purchase additional cruise missiles from the U.S. Now other weapons stocks are emptying fast."
And I refer to [url=http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/techy.htm][b]this[/b][/url] article with the text under the heading "The copious bleeding option". That is, [b]*if*[/b] Sudan tries anything.[/QUOTE]
There is something to be said for cheap effective weapons.
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