Libyan Civil War Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

[Razgovory]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

I wonder if he can hit Italy.

[jimmy olsen]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

I wonder if he can hit Italy.

I think they could reach Sicily depending on where he launched them from in Libya.

[Siege]

From the Brega frontline...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/world/africa/15libya.html?_r=1

The rebels near Brega fired rockets from positions in a valley as their tanks, rarely seen in action, fired from the edge of a nearby hill. But at the sound of incoming rocket fire, the rebel fighters panicked, jumped in their trucks and drove away from the front lines.

Well, there is your problem...

What did you seriously expect?
Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.
Yeah, they got nuts that blow themselves up.
That ain't bravery. That is a controlled detonation. You control the when and how.

Bravery is to face the uncertainty of combat well aware of the consequences.
Uncertainty. Not knowing where that bullet is going to hit you, what limb that IED is going to take from you.
Not knowing if today is the day.

[Ed Anger]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

I wonder if he can hit Italy.

It might improve southern Italy some.

[Neil]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

I wonder if he can hit Italy.

Europe would surrender.

[Admiral Yi]

Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.

Just finished reading a book on the French Foreign Legion; it mentions several times the bravery of he tirailleurs algeriens, especially during the conquests of Indochina and of Madagascar.

[Ed Anger]

Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.

Just finished reading a book on the French Foreign Legion; it mentions several times the bravery of he tirailleurs algeriens, especially during the conquests of Indochina and of Madagascar.

The Moroccans and Algerians in Juin's corps in Italy were pretty nasty also.

[citizen k]

Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.

Just finished reading a book on the French Foreign Legion; it mentions several times the bravery of he tirailleurs algeriens, especially during the conquests of Indochina and of Madagascar.

The Moroccans and Algerians in Juin's corps in Italy were pretty nasty also.

nasty ≠ brave

[The Larch]

Tripoli facing three-sided advance by Libyan rebels

Capital faces onslaught from south, east and west as rebel commanders say they have made significant advances

There are rumours of Gadaffi soon leaving the country and Tunisia willing to give him asylum. Sounds weird but stranger things have happened.

[Razgovory]

Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.

Just finished reading a book on the French Foreign Legion; it mentions several times the bravery of he tirailleurs algeriens, especially during the conquests of Indochina and of Madagascar.

When I read a book on the Spanish Civil War I got the impression that the Moroccans were the only soldiers really worth a damn, at least in the beginning.

[Admiral Yi]

When I read a book on the Spanish Civil War I got the impression that the Moroccans were the only soldiers really worth a damn, at least in the beginning.

Does take some cojones to invent (and use) the Molotov cocktail on the spur of the moment.

Beevor's book made it sound like the Spanish Foreign Legion knew what they were doing too.

[dps]

Muslims in general, and arabs in specific, have never been known for their bravery.

Just finished reading a book on the French Foreign Legion; it mentions several times the bravery of he tirailleurs algeriens, especially during the conquests of Indochina and of Madagascar.

When I read a book on the Spanish Civil War I got the impression that the Moroccans were the only soldiers really worth a damn, at least in the beginning.

Well, that's sort of true.

Moroccan units were by far the best units at the start, but that was mostly because the Moroccan troops didn't really care about the politics of the SCW, they just followed their officer's orders.  And the officers were almost entirely on the rebel side, because as I understand it, it was SOP in Spain to send the disaffected members of the officer corps to Morocco.  In most of the rest of the army, the units more-or-less fell apart, because their officers were split between the 2 sides. 

[Iormlund]

They were also regular troops pitted against militias.

[Berkut]

The Big Q is getting desperate. He's started shooting off Scuds.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7698701.html

I wonder if he can hit Italy.

The real question is whether or not he can hit Spain.