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Jump To Comment: 2 1..to consider it in any sort of nationalist terms is off the mark.
Nato is the instrument alright, but the operators are post-national corporations stashing the liquidated resources and sweat of the global productive economy in off-shore tax-vaults..while their executives have a selection of passports and residences to fall back on if the water gets too warm at any particular location.
You'll find the services advertised in such publications as The Economist or Financial Times. A useful map of locations and activities is provided by Nicholas Shaxson's 'Treasure Islands'(Bodely Head 2011), or
http://www.treasureislands.org
Right, this seems to be popping up all over but it won't be a US proxy war. I don't mean to say that the US will not be involved but that they won't be the prime movers in it.
Going back to Libya, the US did a good show of flag waving but at the end of the day did very little. The NATO forces that did the fighting and supplying where mostly from France (which flew 35% of NATO's strikes, Denmark close behind with 17%).
Right now there are CIA weapons specialists and tech advisers there but German has had people there longer and Ruters has it that the SAS has been running ops there.
After the debacle that was the Second Gulf War the US does not want to get into any other land war, mostly with the chance of one in Iran in next year. Air and Black Ops and other Cold War tactics though are fine for them but this NATO campaign will be lead mostly by European counties. It is though the old European superpowers of France, UK, Germany etc are trying to reestablish their Post War zones of influence in Africa and the Middle East. Were as the people of the Middle East view the Arab Spring as the chance for freedom against oppression, Europe see's it as a chance to regain control.
Because we have become so use to US waging regime change throughout the last 50 years and leading NATO, we jump and go "Yep, another US proxy war" but this one is going to be lead by Old World powers. Trust me, when the dust settles France, England, Germany etc will be the ones reaping the lions share of the rewards.
America will probable try to reestablish its zone of influence in South America via Colombia Proxy.