US Floating Libya No-Fly Zones

[vision63]

Dakota wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=Dakota]
The real action is on the ground. He does not need air power to shoot people in the streets or hang them. No-fly zone didn't remove Saddam.

He didn't need removal. He was contained. And pumping oil.
Are you suggesting to do the same with Kaddafi?
The Libyans will sort it out.

[Uncle Wig]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/...ya-zone-us

Fixed your headline for you. UK Prime Minister David Cameron is the one proposing this. No takers so far, including the Obama administration.

[RgrF]

cbelt3 wrote:
See Acer's note.... Iraq's no fly zone was designed to keep Saddam from attacking the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south. And WHOSE No Fly Zone war was it ?

Yep. Bill Clinton's.

Did it work ? Reasonably.

And that would be the main goal of a No Fly zone in Libya- to keep Moamar from bombing and strafing his people. Not to mention making a few new 'aces' in the USN.

Deny air power and ground warfare becomes a weapons availability issue. Deny resupply and eventually he runs out of ammo. Deny money and the mercs that he hired for him will quit. Eventually he'll just have his immediate family. It's basic siege tactics. And it works.

No it doesn't.

A siege mentality requires strong purpose, unlimited stamina and unrelenting resolve on the part of those laying siege, show us any where of those characteristics are available from any party possessing the potential to actually lay siege in a case like this.