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American and British naval forces fired over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles, while the French Air Force, British Royal Air Force, and Royal Canadian Air Force undertook sorties across Libya and a naval blockade by Coalition forces. French jets launched air strikes against Libyan Army tanks and vehicles. The intervention did not employ foreign ground troops.

The effort was initially largely led by France and the United Kingdom, with command shared with the United States.

Both Libyan officials and international states and organizations called for a no-fly zone over Libya in light of allegations that Muammar Gaddafi's military had conducted airstrikes against Libyan rebels in the Libyan Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...

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Sorry, not sure why you expanded on this particular event. Could you explain if I missed something? :)

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I doubt you’ve missed HN having a slightly higher standard of commentary than other social media sites, and non moderators’ parts in keeping it that way.

Being irrationally Americentric while simultaneously condescending to Europeans in characterizing the Libyan intervention as “US” gets both basic recent history wrong, and promulgates US > EU sentiment worryingly present on HN.

I’m doing my part, would you like to know more?