As I’m writing the final chapter of my series of debriefs about the air war in Libya, NATO’s Operation Unified Protector is not officially ended as it will end on Oct. 31.

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 55 – 67) Published on: May 24, 2011 at 11:58 PM. David Cenciotti SHARE. Previous debriefings: Archive.

"We have taken a preliminary decision to end Operation Unified Protector on Oct. 31," Fogh Rasmussen said after a meeting of the alliance's governing body, the North Atlantic Council.

Unified Protector transitioned to NATO on March 31 from the U.S.-led Operation Odyssey Dawn, which began March 19 to provide operational and tactical international response to the unrest in Libya ...

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"Attack helicopters under NATO command were used for the first time on 4 June, 2011 in military operations over Libya as part of Operation Unified Protector," the Atlantic Alliance said in a ...

Some see the end of the NATO operation in Libya as a moment for Europe to step up with more robust support of the alliance. The US remains skeptical.

It's entirely possible that Operation Unified Protector will turn out to have been NATO's defining post–Cold War moment. The alliance's military intervention in Libya achieved big things: it ...

With Tripoli having fallen to rebel forces on Aug. 21, after six months of war, the president's supporters are even suggesting that Operation Unified Protector, as the international intervention ...

Four months after American submarines began launching missiles and U.S. pilots began flying sorties, does anyone, perhaps even including President Obama, really know what we are trying to do in Libya ...

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