This report says that US is exercising de facto command because it has the special intelligence, targeting, and command and control assets needed to coordinate the effort, but is trying to minimize its visibility and is almost totally unconvincing in claiming that it will only use the "no fly zone" to protect civilians while simultaneously stating that it does not want violent regime change.
The Arab world has not only achieved its usual lack of functional unity, but those who did agree now seem to want to pretend that the use of force can somehow avoid civilians. As for those who abstained, China, Germany, and Russia do not seem natural bedfellows, and Russia's top leaders have taken opposing views over the entire effort.
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