Stratfor.
Whatever one thought of the Libya intervention, the details make for a
bad advertisement about NATO. As one U.S. Air Force planner told me,
"It was like Snow White and the 27 dwarfs, all standing up to her knees"
-- the United States being Snow White and the other NATO member states
being the dwarfs. The statistics regarding just how much the United
States had to go it alone in Libya -- pushed by the British and French
-- despite the diplomatic fig leaf of "leading from behind," are
devastating for the alliance.
More than 80 percent of the gasoline used in the intervention came
from the U.S. military. Almost all the individual operation orders had
an American address. Of dozens of countries taking part, only eight air
forces were allowed by their defense ministries to drop any bombs. Many
flew sorties apparently only for the symbolism of it. While most
airstrikes were carried out by non-U.S. aircraft, the United States ran
the logistical end of the war.
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