Crew at work inside a Nato AWACS. Two F-16 fighter jets prowling the skies over Tripoli pinpoint a missile launch site near a building in the capital. They ask for clearance to drop a pair of 500-pound bombs. Flying off the coast of Libya, a large AWACS relays the request to a team of analysts and legal advisers in a Nato air operations center in Italy to weigh whether there is a risk to civilians. Around an hour later, an AWACS weapons controller monitoring Nato aircraft movements on a map of Libya gives the pilot