The Odyssey is a famous epic of ancient Greece, edited by Homer, a blind poet, and describes the story of the Greek hero Odysseus after the ten-year war of ancient Greece's expedition to Troy. After the ten-year war, Odysseus went home by boat, but the road to his hometown was not smooth, and he drifted at sea for another ten years ... Twenty years later, his son grew up and his wife waited hard, but after suffering, Odysseus finally returned to his old country, and the nobles who were forced to marry still occupied his palace and ate and drank. Odysseus pretended to be a beggar and entered the palace, trying to kill the violent aristocrat with his son and reunite with his wife.

The "Odyssey" in Operation Odyssey Dawn means justice and revenge, that is, Gaddafi (the aristocrat) occupied the Libyan regime for decades, concentrated power and oppressed the people (his wife). Now, European and American military forces (calling themselves Odysseus) have returned to Libya (the old United States also attacked Libya through the Golden Canyon operation decades ago), and will use the sword of justice to violently destroy independent forces (violent nobles) with blood for blood. "Dawn" means that the Libyan people will usher in the dawn in the darkest night (Benghazi is about to fall before, and the opposition is facing total failure), and the air strikes will end at dawn.