- Research Paper 90: “NATO’s Maritime Strategy and the Libya Crisis as Seen from the Sea”, Research Paper 90: “La stratégie maritime de l’OTAN et la crise en Libye vue de la mer”, by Brooke A. Smith-Windsor.
Within days of its public release, NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy (AMS) would be put to the test with the arrival of the Libyan crisis and the launch of Operation Unified Protector (OUP) to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1973. At its peak, OUP would account for the deployment of no less than 21 naval assets (supply ships, frigates, destroyers, submarines, amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers), enabling air strikes ashore, humanitarian assistance, safety of life at sea (search and rescue) and the surveillance of an area measuring approximately 61.000 nautical square miles. The NDC’s latest Research Paper offers an assessment of how the Strategy fared in its inaugural encounter with real-world events.
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