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Toppling Qaddafi LIBYA AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL INTERVENTION Christopher S. Chivvis Christopher S. Chivvis, Rand National Defense Research Institute Price ` 495.00 only Size : 230mm x 150mm Pages : 264pp Year : 2014 Binding : Paperback ISBN : 9781107451544 NEW NEW NEW NEW

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Toppling QaddafiLIBYA AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERALINTERVENTION

Christopher S. Chivvis

Christopher S. Chivvis, Rand National Defense Research Institute

Price ` 495.00 only

Size : 230mm x 150mm

Pages : 264pp

Year : 2014

Binding : Paperback

ISBN : 9781107451544

NEWNEWNEWNEW

Toppling Qaddafi is a carefullyresearched, highly readable look at therole of the United States and NATO inLibya's war of liberation and its lessonsfor future military interventions. Basedon extensive interviews within the USgovernment, this book recounts the storyof how the United States and itsEuropean allies went to war againstMuammar Qaddafi in 2011, why theywon the war, and what the implicationsfor NATO, Europe, and Libya will be. Thiswas a war that few saw coming, andmany worried would go badly awry, but

Toppling QaddafiLIBYA AND THE LIMITSOF LIBERALINTERVENTION

Christopher S. Chivvis

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in the end the Qaddafi regime fell and anew era in Libya's history dawned.Whether this is the kind of interventionthat can be repeated, however, remainsan open question - as does Libya's futureand that of its neighbors.

CONTENTS

1. Libya and the light footprint

2. Precipitous crisis

3. The pivots of war

4. Crippling Qaddafi and infighting overNATO

5. Stalemate

6. Grinding away

7. Sudden success

8. The impact of the war and itsimplications.