No-Fly Zone Effectiveness: From Military–Strategic Tool to Political Shorthand

Friday, December 15, 2017 - 22:27 (EET) Section: Royal United Services Institute (UK)

No-fly zones have become a popular foreign policy tool over the past two decades, but they are rarely effective. In fact, no-fly zones are generally used for solving political rather than military–strategic problems.Download the article (PDF)No-fly zones have become the one-size-fits-all solution to a wide range of foreign policy problems and situations over the past two decades. Developed from combat air patrol operations in northern Iraq to accompany and if necessary protect humanitarian airdrops in 1991, no-fly zones have since been applied in southern Iraq in 1992, in the Bosnian Civil War in 1992–93, and in the 2011 Libya intervention. …read more

Source: Royal United Services Institute (UK)