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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
The key word is "eventualy".
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About a year? Not bad considering all that came before. No, the air campaign against Serbia was not quite as clean as that launched against Saddam in '91, but it got results. Milosovic was out of office a year or two later and the Balkans have been relatively peaceful since. IIRC, the only ground forces committed were a UN peacekeeping force.
Aside from a few SF types, I doubt that we'll see Americans on the ground in Libya. We're too strung out as it is and we don't have a good history there (..."to the shores of Tripoli"...). Logistically and militarily speaking, France would be the logical choice but their colonial history in the region might rub many in the region the wrong way.