“It’s getting more difficult to find stuff to blow up,” said a senior NATO officer, noting that Kadafi’s forces are increasingly using civilian facilities to carry out military operations. “Predators really enable you study things and to develop a picture of what is going on.”
And yet the dream shall never die. Still, war after war it keeps being true that even though bombs and missiles are very good at blowing things up they’re not very good at accomplishing political objectives.
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