Targeting Process on the Example of the Libya Case

Abstract

Protection of the civilian population against the Gaddafi regime, it was a clear UN mandate for military intervention in Libya in 2011. Not only a new approach to leading the fight against terrorism after 11 September 2001, but also requires a change in approaches to conducting combat operations coalition forces, asshown by the recent armed conflict in Libya, inevitably required a new perspective on the concept and approach to the process of targeting as the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and responding to them in accordance with operational requirements and capabilities of units, synchronization of NATO forces, particularly with regard to collateral damage with an impact on the protection of civilians. And Unified Protector operation is a clear example.

Keywords

• Targeting
• target
• OUP
• Libya
• collateral damage
• international humanitarian law
• the process of targeting
• evaluation
• scheduling
• process of synchronization
• NATO CDE metodology.