![]() The Pentagon is considering axing resources and manpower for counterinsurgency conflicts to address great power competition concerns - which is drawing rebuke from lawmakers and national security experts who are worried that an ensuing power vacuum will breathe new life into the plethora of terrorist and militant groups across the U.S. troops can compete with rising near-peers in a region often dominated by low-tech conflict and violent extremist groups. ![]() forces and American commandos an experimental battlefield to gauge how U.S. The rapidly-morphing war in Libya may provide U.S. “Multiple incidents of precision air strikes conducted by unknown aircraft have occurred, in apparent violation of the United Nations arms embargo." “The use of air power and precision technology, including precision-guided artillery, has become a dominant feature of an otherwise low-intensity conflict,” the UN report reads. The battlefield now features air defense systems, long-range drones, electronic war and the jamming of GPS systems that stretches 50 miles in from the Libyan coast - a hallmark of near-peer conflicts like Ukraine’s war with Russia and its separatist forces on the eastern front. The conflict remained for years a low-tech counterinsurgency war until now. ![]() Moammar Gadhafi’s armories during the 2011 uprising flooded the battlefield with with an array of dated Russian and Soviet heavy weapons, machine guns, artillery and outmoded armored vehicles. The plunder of former Libyan dictator Col. ![]()
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