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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815873403321

Autore

Patman Robert G

Titolo

Strategic shortfall : the Somalia Syndrome and the march to 9/11 / / Robert G. Patman ; foreword by Martin N. Stanton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2023

ISBN

979-82-16-01976-3

1-282-49213-6

9786612492136

1-57356-726-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

355/.03307309049

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states,



led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.