Author: Ahmeid Alqhadi
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Homegrown and Tethered: Libya’s Three-Year Build-Up to Suicide-Drone Warfare
The small suicide drone that burned Zawiya’s refinery in August did not arrive in Libya that month. It was assembled there, in stages, over three years, by militias that bought counter-drone jammers before they had drones worth jamming, then built the drones anyway, then re-engineered them to beat the jammers they themselves had helped bring…
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The Borrowed Fix: Libya’s Crisis and the Limits of Outside Help
Every diplomatic initiative in Libya begins with the same promise: this time will be different. A foreign envoy arrives with renewed urgency, rival factions are brought to the negotiating table, agreements are signed, and international headlines cautiously speak of progress. For a brief moment, optimism returns. Then the delegation leaves, implementation falters, and Libya slips…