Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution

It took three decades for the United States government–spanning and working assiduously over five different presidential administrations (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama)–to overthrow and reverse the 1969 Qaddafi Revolution in order to resubjugate Libya, seize control over its oil fields, and dismantle its Jamahiriya system. This book tells the story of what happened, why it happened, and what was both wrong and illegal with what happened from the perspective of an international...