Jason Pack (Jason Pack) and Wolfgang Pusztai (Wolfgang Pusztai) in a foreign policy document entitled "Turning the situation: how Turkey won the war for Tripoli" pointed out that the war in the capital Tripoli It was mainly an air battle dominated by foreign powers, and he believed that this war was "basically won by Turkey."
In January of this year, after Parliament approved a motion to respond to Libya's request to send Turkish troops, Turkey began sending soldiers to Libya.
Libya and Turkey signed an agreement in November that outlines cooperation in security and maritime affairs, which has angered Mediterranean countries including Greece and the Greek regime in South Cyprus. This diplomatic strategy prevented the Greeks and Greek Cypriots from unilaterally developing energy in the region.
Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National Reconciliation (GNA) has formally asked the Turkish army to provide “air, ground and sea” support to help resist the attack by the army of Khalifa Haftar, the insurgent Tripoli who is trying to control the capital. Turkey supports the GNA, which is also supported by the United Nations, and opposes Haftar’s militias and mercenaries.
Parker said that he opposes calling the Libyan war a proxy war. He said that this is a cross-border war, and we may fight this way in the future.
He claimed that the media that placed too much emphasis on foreign mercenaries was “deceptive” and said: “All meaningful ground battles that lose or gain territory are carried out by Libyans.”
According to this research, Haftar The UAE’s air superiority is mainly based on Russian fighter jets, helicopters and skilled drone assistance from the United Arab Emirates in 2019. At that time, GNA had about 24 Turkish-made drones and certain air defense weapons. GNA did not have the equipment to deal with Haftar’s air superiority. Its Western supporters, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, even had political and military capabilities. Ability to provide assistance but refuse to provide assistance.
The study puts Turkey and Russia’s January 2020 ceasefire agreement as a “turning point”. The report said that Haftar left Moscow without signing the agreement, embarrassing his supporter, the Russian president. After the Turkish Air Force delivered the HAWK XXI medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) battery to Misrata Airport, Haftar’s air superiority quickly disappeared.
"In general, if Egypt and the UAE are willing to fully invest their joint financial and professional military resources, they will have the ability to move the fighting in a direction that favors the Libyan National Army (LNA). However, they decided not to attack the newly arrived The Turkish air defense system." The author of
also believes that the Tripoli war is a "new type of military conflict". Turkey's decisive deployment of drones and its air defense capabilities are likely to be studied and imitated by other countries.
