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Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen
Lots of words by lots of politicians.
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For better and for worse, American strategy is formed largely in the arena of political culture. Does dismissing this influence help or hinder one's ability to understand and to influence American strategy?
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Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen
On April 15, 1986, 300 bombs and 48 missles spoke loudly.
Didn't have too many problems from gaddafi thereafter.
Some people don't understand anything but force.
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IMO, your assessment of Operation ELDORADO CANYON over looks both the operation's diplomatic and political contexts* as well as the destruction of Pan American flight 103 in 1988.
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* Edward Schumacher, "The United States and Libya,"
Foreign Affairs 65:2 (winter 1986/86); Robert Oakley, "International Terrorism,"
Foreign Affairs 65:3 (special issue, 1986); Mark E. Kosnik, "The Military Response to Terrorism,"
Naval War College Review (spring 2000): 13-39.