--- description: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Zi6J7GbHA&feature=player_embedded#at=24] No, not the booms of bullets and bombs, but the far more disquieting and insidious sound of calm-but-stern voices instructing Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan loyalists,... title: Sounds of War image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Sounds of War by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Mar 29, 2011 1:28 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Mar 29, 2011 1:28 PM CUT No, not the booms of bullets and bombs, but the far more disquieting and insidious sound of calm-but-stern voices instructing Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan loyalists, through their radios, to give up. The multilingual messages are broadcast from EC-130 _Commando Solo_ aircraft like this one:  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov before their meeting at the Russian Ambassador's residence in Paris March 30, 2014\. Kerry and Lavrov met in Paris seeking to hammer out the framework of a deal to reduce tensions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS) POOL—REUTERS Sounds of War ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7170996/sounds-of-war/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7170996/sounds-of-war/"},"headline":"Sounds of War","datePublished":"2011-03-29T13:28:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-18T05:47:17.288Z","description":"[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Zi6J7GbHA&feature=player_embedded#at=24] No, not the booms of bullets and bombs, but the far more disquieting and insidious sound of calm-but-stern voices instructing Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan loyalists,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7170996/sounds-of-war/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7170996/sounds-of-war/","name":"Sounds of War"}}]}] ```