Nato's 'Afrika Korps' In Libya

On June 1 NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared that the Alliance had authorized continuation of the war for three more months, until the end of September, and a week later he confirmed that the defense chiefs of NATO's 28 member states, including the Pentagon's Robert Gates, endorsed the decision to extend so-called Operation Unified Protector for another 90 days during a defense ministerial meeting at NATO Headquarters in Belgium. 

In addition to the deployment of British Apache and French Gazelle and Tiger attack helicopters - the first equipped with what the Daily Mirror described as "a deadly missile dubbed 'the mincer'" a "­gruesome anti-personnel missile containing 80 5in-long steel darts called flechettes," the U.S. has dispatched the mammoth USS George H.W. Bush nuclear supercarrier with an accompanying strike group to the Mediterranean Sea for what portends a military endgame for the North African state of slightly over six million people.

The above-cited British newspaper recently referred to the George H.W. Bush, now on its maiden deployment and at the time engaged in war games, Exercise Saxon Warrior, with the Royal Navy's HMS Dauntless and HMS Gloucester, as the "world's most powerful warship," adding that "The 97,000-ton Bush carries in excess of 70 aircraft from eight squadrons and 5,300 sailors and aircrew." More Here.