Coalition of Military Intervention in Libya

Coalition of military
intervention in Libya

Executive Summary
1.1 Summary
In the year of 2011, conflict (Civil War) basically took place in Libya which was
considered to be a part of Arab Spring process where they have gained international attention
because the leader of Libya started threatening individuals living in Libya. When the civil war
broke out in Libya, there was an intervention by NATO or The North Atlantic Treaty
Organization. This was basically done as a response to the events during the war. The United
States took part in the intervention and helped in saving the lives of rebels who were against
Gaddafi with airstrikes against the Libyan army. This is because Muammar Gaddafi had
converted the country into a public that was governed by his council. Basically, the civil war
took place because the leader of Libya (Muammar Al-Gaddafi) was following an autocratic
leadership style and this is why the change of regime was important in it. In the present context,
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was introduced and specifically the reason that in
front was to protect Libya. The various countries that came together during the coalition included
Denmark, France, Ireland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1.2 Key Findings
The key findings of the report are listed below -
 NATO took responsibility by developing military intervention to protect Libya against
dictatorship (Janičatová, 2020).
 Unified Protector which was considered to operation conducted in the month of March of
2011. This operation kept its focus on defending civilians of Libya.
 Under the rules and regulations of UN Security Council, the military intervention named
as Operation Unified Protector was conducted.
 Aerial attack, Arm embargo, no-fly zone and a range of attacks took place on Libyan
government forces (Ibrahim, 2020).

Project Description
2.1 Introduction
Decades before the Libyan Civil War that took place in the year 2011, both Libya as well
as the United States were not on good terms. The Civil War that took place in Libya was said to
be a part of Arab Spring process where civilians started protesting against the dictatorship of
Muammar Al-Gaddafi. In reply to the same, Gaddafi attacked civilians and this is where the non-
violent protest was also militarised for days. This coalition was led by multiple states began a
military intervention in Libya. The United States took part in this helping the rebels who were
against Gaddafi with airstrikes against the army of Libya (Gregory, 2015). The United Nations
authorized military intervention in Libya to protect civilians. This was done as a response to
violence between the government as well as the opponents. After two days when violence
between government forces and opponents took place, NATO started an intervention, wherein it
established a no-fly zone and launched aerial attacks on the government forces. The Libyan rebel
forces killed Muammar Gaddafi, the former ruler of the country (Johnson Lafferty, 2020).
2.2 Description of the context
The chosen intervention is that NATO-led a multi-state coalition that took place in Libya.
NATO or The North Atlantic Treaty Organization stepped in during the civil war to protect the
civilians in Libya and not to set up a democracy. The primary aim was to protect the civilians as
well as areas that were populated in case of an attack. This effort was initiated by France and the
United Kingdom and the commands were given by the United States during the Libyan Civil
War (Hodge, 2013). The circumstances were not good and also, the United Nations intended to
have immediate peace within the country. It wanted to end the current attacks that were taking
place against civilians.
2.3 Description of the intervention
The intervention which was developed by NATO for Libya has been a multi-state
military intervention and this particularly was named Operation Unified Protector. Authorized
member states of this military intervention used a range of measures to protect Libyans like
enforcement of arms embargo, the imposition of the no-fly zone, and the freezing of assets. Great
Britain, France, the United State were the primal countries that took an immediate military
response where they have considered missile strikes, airstrikes after the resolution. Away with