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Initial operations have been very effective, taken out most of his air defense systems, some of his airfields. yet, there is still, i think, a great deal to be done. >> so they will take out more air fields? >> we'll see. we've seen some of that. we also struck some of his forces on the ground into the vicinity of benghazi. he was attacking benghazi yesterday. so put a halt to that at least temporarily. and now we'll look to cut off his logistics lines. he has his forces pretty well stretched from tripoli all the way out to benghazi and we'll endeavor to sever his logistic support here in the ...

Remote locations and less likely to be taking place right near the city of say tripoli or other more populated cities? >> i don't think very many anti-air defenses are right in the middle of the downtown area. the defenses would generally be around air fields, around military targets. so the idea of the tomahawk is to go in early. take out the early warning radars. take out the surface-to-air missiles. take out any airplanes that they can identify on the runways. and that allows the next wave of manned aircraft to come in and not be subject to as much of a threat from the surface-to-air missil...

There is more, but you can hear that thunder, about 300 yards from me. >> geraldo: this asa fox news alert. the first phase of the war against the gaddafi regime in liba. a massive attack on his air defenses and air fields. these have been an unqualified success. a pentagon official telling fox news those strikes, 114 cruise missiles hitting more than 20 targets on libya's med terrainin coast have, quote, severely disabled gaddafi's surface air missile capability, making possible phase two of the international effort against the libyan dictator. imposition of a no-fly zone skin designed to pro...

They're ever going to be a formidible force. it's terrible to say this sort of thing but this is mostly a show of force, solidarity by european and middle eastern allies and i'm afraid not much more. they're doing a great job of destroying tanks, command and control, air fields even, aircraft of gadhafi, but in the end the rebels need a lot of things that can't be delivered to them by precision-guided munitions. >> so at some point, general mccaffery, do you anticipate some country whether it's france or arab nations, they're going to have to send in ground troops and consultants and a lot, if...

Prosecuting intended purpose. >> the record is very good at keeping people from flying around in a no fly zone. you knock out the anti-aircraft capability, knock out command and control and communications capability and you knock out the air fields. the end of air strikes. that doesn't necessarily mean the good guys are going to win. indeed, the rebels are so bereft of leadership and weapons they are not likely to win, even absent gadhafi's capability to pommel them with artillery and aircraft. and you're absolutely right. no fly zones are pretty good at stopping flying, not necessarily been v...