Olivier Guitta

Af­ter the dis­as­trous in­ter­ven­tion in 2011, the US has to be care­ful of the un­in­tend­ed con­se­quences of a new cam­paign.

The lat­est Brus­sels ter­ror at­tacks have un­for­tu­nate­ly shown the best and the worst of in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion.

AQIM has shown re­silience and an abil­i­ty to adapt to new sit­u­a­tions, mak­ing it a dan­ger­ous and re­source­ful ad­ver­sary.

Libya has re­placed Syr­ia and Iraq as the top mil­i­tary pri­or­i­ty, es­pe­cial­ly for Eu­ro­peans.

The emer­gence of ISIL in Libya ap­pears to have tipped the bal­ance in the war-torn coun­try.

Re­cent his­to­ry shows that ISIL op­er­a­tives and fol­low­ers will stop at noth­ing in strik­ing coun­tries they tar­get.