If the West decides to arm Libya's disorganized rebel forces, they will have to deploy trainers on the ground and not merely deliver crates of weapons, former US officers and officials said/../Just providing equipment without instruction would mean "a lot of money that would be wasted," said Dakota Wood, a retired Marine officer and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. "It isn't just the weapons that make the force effective, it's the skill with which the weapons are employed," Wood said.
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