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Maritime surveillance plane to help enforce the no-fly zone. for a better understanding of what the no-fly zone means, it's tender to an associate fellow at rusi, royal united services institute. he joins from us cnn's london bureau. thank you very much. from what we know of the military operations over the last 24 hours or so how would you assess how they're going? >> well, this is the predictable stable phase of the operations in which a coalition of forces are simply paving the way for clearing libya's skies. that's the no-fly zone. and it will probably go very smoothly. there may be civili...

His country's civil war. he calls the coalition strikes naked aggression. u.s. president barack obama says the use of force was necessary but not the allies' first choice. so, as those coalition air strikes target libyan military forces, representatives of the coalition continue to explain the rationale behind the strikes. in paris saturday, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said washington is resolute in its efforts to stop gadhafi. >> so let me just underscore the key point. this is a broad international effort. the world will not sit idly by while more innocent civilians are killed. t...

Of the eastern cities? that question won't be answered until much later today or tomorrow. >> you think even that soon? >> excuse me? >> you think that this question might be answered wind the next 12 hours or so? >> we've certainly already seen initial fringe attacks on ground forces. some of those attacks were symbolic. clearly the french were interested in leading this operation from the front. i think the coalition powers will be aware, the longer they leave it, the more colonel gadhafi's armor and infantry can filter into urban areas where they are harder and harder to hit. the delay betw...

Part of the effort the united states will contribute our unique capabilities at the front end of the mission to protect libyan civilians and enable the enforcement of a no-fly zone to be led by our international partners. and as i said yesterday, we'll not, i repeat will not deploy any u.s. troops on the ground. >> the goals of the initial operations are two fold to prevent first further attacks on libyan citizens and opposition groups in and around benghazi and second to degrade the regime's capability to restrict the n no-fly zone. >> geraldo: general, is that enough to have a no-fly zone an...

Part of the effort the united states will contribute our unique capabilities at the front end of the mission to protect libyan civilians and enable the enforcement of a no-fly zone to be led by our international partners. and as i said yesterday, we'll not, i repeat will not deploy any u.s. troops on the ground. >> the goals of the initial operations are two fold to prevent first further attacks on libyan citizens and opposition groups in and around benghazi and second to degrade the regime's capability to restrict the n no-fly zone. >> geraldo: general, is that enough to have a no-fly zone an...