Germany and Libya: Return of the Afrika (aid) Korps?
World News • April 2011 • Views: 394
GERMANY has a complicated relationship with military force, for reasons that are more than understandable. But what is one to make of its contortions over the intervention in Libya?
One moment Germany is Europe’s most awkward critic of the air campaign to save Benghazi; the next it is first to put up its hand to volunteer forces, including the despatch of ground troops if necessary, to deliver humanitarian aid to Misrata.