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Autore |
Patman Robert G |
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Titolo |
Strategic shortfall : the Somalia Syndrome and the march to 9/11 / / Robert G. Patman ; foreword by Martin N. Stanton |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2010 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023 |
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979-82-16-01976-3 |
1-282-49213-6 |
9786612492136 |
1-57356-726-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (205 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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National security - United States |
Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993 - Influence |
Security, International |
Somalia Affair, 1992-1997 - Influence |
United States Foreign relations 1989- |
United States Military policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. The New Global Context and the Disintegration of the Somali State; 2. About Face: President Bush's Decision to Intervene in Somalia; 3. A Shattered Hope: The U.S.-UN Intervention in Somalia; 4. What If? The Alternative History of Australian Involvement in Somalia; 5. The Somalia Syndrome and the Rise of al Qaeda; 6. Too Little Too Late: Clinton's Growing Fears about al Qaeda and the Long Shadow of the Somalia Syndrome |
7. What Threat? Bush's Retreat to the Mogadishu Line and the Countdown to the 9/11 Attacks8. Conclusion: America's Strategic Shortfall; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, |
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