NATO

[denajousi]

How can NATO planes tell the difference between civilians and soldiers in Libya? The old NATO trick of only shooting brown people seems a bit risky in a war with so many cameras around.
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[Reality Check]

How can NATO planes tell the difference between civilians and soldiers in Libya?

Well the easiest way to do it, in a place like Syria, is to simply say you are attacking for one purpose and then do something completely different.

For example say you are merely attacking those Syrian soldiers who are attacking civilians, but instead attack those Syrian soldiers who are massing to fight the rebels or massing to move in a convoy of trucks and at the same time attack and destroy those buildings that are symbols of Syrian military power and also those buildings that are symbols of the Syrian dictator's power. Tanks, rocket launchers, long range artillery, and rotary & fixed wing aircraft are also pieces of Syrian military equipment vulnerable to air attack, but you attack them wherever you find them, not just when they are attacking civilians.

In other words, you say this is humanitarian rescue operation, but fight it like a war.

It is much easier to dismantle a government with air power, than attack insurgents with air power. Governments have assets like troop barracks, command centers, the Presidential Palace, Intelligence Headquarters, etc. that can be attacked and destroyed. Even if they can fight without them, the fact they can not even defend the regimes own assets tends to de-Legitimize the Syrian army as a force that can protect those parts of the civilian population that currently support the Syrian government.

This is what was done in Libya and also in the first few months of the U.S. attack on Afghanistan shortly after 911. It worked very well because NATO had air supremacy in both cases.

[Reality Check]

The old NATO trick of only shooting brown people seems a bit risky in a war with so many cameras around.

The Serb's in Bosnia and Kosovo were not brown.

The Taliban are not brown. The Libyans on both the NATO side and the Gaddafi side were all different shades of white, black and brown.

Not sure where the factual background that supports these statements of skin color based military action come from...