Battle of mogadishu dead bodies
Battle of mogadishu dead bodies
Battle of mogadishu dead bodies found.
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down, New York Times
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The battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans.
U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support a U.N. humanitarian mission and had helped end a famine, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ten months later, there was pitched street fighting in Mogadishu, 18 dead American soldiers, more than a thousand Somali casualties and the horror, replayed over and over on TV, of American bodies being dragged through the streets by angry mobs.
The United States had just emerged from victory in the Cold War and the swift triumph of Desert Storm and had, perhaps, an unrealistic faith in its military potency. President Bill Clinton expressed this when he asked his staff, “How could this happen?” The battle ended the U.S.
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