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Libyan Air Wars - Part 1: 1973-1985 (Paperback)
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Libyan Air Wars - Part 1: 1973-1985 (Paperback)
Series: Africa@War
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Between 1973 and 1989, various Western powers and Libya were
entangled in a seemingly never-ending exchange of blows. Supposedly
launched in retaliation for one action or the other, this
confrontation resulted in a number of high-profile, even though
low-scale, clashes between the Libyan Arab Air Force (LAAF), the US
Navy and even the French. Meanwhile, almost as a sideshow, the LAAF
– quantitatively one of the most potent air forces in North Africa
and the Middle East – also saw intensive deployment in Chad.
Initially, with sporadic fighting between different parties for the
control of N’Djamena, the Chadian capital, this conflict eventually
turned into a major war when Libya invaded the country outright.
The LAAF deployed not only French-made Mirage but also Soviet made
fighter-bombers of MiG and Sukhoi design, Mil-designed helicopters
and even bombers of Tupolev design, to establish her dominance over
the extensive battlefield of the Sahara Desert. Because of the Cold
War but also due to confrontation with Libya over a number of other
issues, France – a one-time major arms supplier to Libya – and the
USA gradually got dragged into the war. Deployments of their troops
and intelligence services in Chad, Egypt and the Sudan never
resulted in a full-scale war against Libya, but time and again
culminated in small-scale aerial operations that proved crucial to
developments on the ground, several of which are still a matter of
extensive debate. Detailing not only the aerial operations but the
ground war and the geo-political background of these conflicts, and
illustrated with over 100 contemporary photographs, maps and
all-new colour profiles, this volume provides a unique insight into
an otherwise completely forgotten conflict that raged from the
skies over the southern Mediterranean to southern Chad and northern
Sudan, yet one that not only represented a formative period of the
LAAF, but which also prompted a number of crucial modifications and
developments in France and the USA.
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