Reuters
Libyan rebels in a fight they don’t control
...This is unbelievable, how could Nato-Allies win this war without co-ordinate with the very people who are the people they try to protect on the ground. I think Nato is very wrong on this. This war has been a grave human cost, time drags on more grave, why Nato has not been co-ordinate with the revolutionary army, they should know everything or least more knowledge than they are, up to sky some thousand miles up to air, gang-ho gang-ho? Well even if high-tech, they need to know what is going on ground level, local knowledge, tacit peoples’ movement, this is unbelievable grave strategic mistakes they are making. Also when you are powerful you should know the virtue of generosity is the key to the peoples’ hearts. This is not a just battle, but so much economic/political strategic impact on each country who involved in. their future relationship with Libya should also consider. Nato-allies don’t want bitter resentment from Libyan even though they have been doing a great job and afterward. In a sense soldiers for the combat, they are not training to protect civilian by nature, their purpose is wining the battle, so the leadership of Nato job make sure their operation front line solders have to co-ordinate the revolutionary. Also the revolutionary side, don’t just sitting and complianting but more assertive saying, “hey this is our war, thank you very much for your help but you have to co-ordinate with us…!" Banging Nato-Allies’ heads!
The rebel officers complain that NATO has not posted a liaison officer in the command center. Hasi and his team do not speak to the AWACS controllers to coordinate airstrikes, and they get little feedback from their NATO counterparts.
“We have no contact with anyone except those people that are next door,” Hasi said. “We need more contact with NATO. We need more of everything.”...
