The History of No-Fly Zones Doesn’t Bode Well for Syria

October 26, 2015 By Stephen Wrage Scott Cooper
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Tough-talking presidential candidates want a no-fly zone to save Syrians. But nothing in the historical record shows a NFZ would work this time.

People have been dying in Syria for years and fleeing in great numbers for months. For all that time, no-fly zones have been urgently called for as morally necessary, yet regularly dismissed as useless, too dangerous, or too costly.  Now no-fly zones are being debated in the American presidential campaign. It is time that someone spelled out what the record shows no-fly zones can and cannot do.http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/10/history-no-fly-zones-doesnt-bode-well-syria/123150/?oref=defenseone_today_nl