LEADER 03071oam 2200697 a 450 001 9910792455103321 005 20100111135845.0 010 $a979-82-16-01976-3 010 $a1-282-49213-6 010 $a9786612492136 010 $a1-57356-726-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9798216019763 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009898 035 $a(EBL)491333 035 $a(OCoLC)609857358 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000366283 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000366283 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413964 035 $a(PQKB)10598371 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL491333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369945 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL249213 035 $a(OCoLC)259253969 035 $a(DLC)ABC1573567264 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC491333 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009898 100 $a20100108e20102023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrategic shortfall$b[electronic resource] $ethe Somalia Syndrome and the march to 9/11 /$fRobert G. Patman ; foreword by Martin N. Stanton 210 1$aSanta Barbara, Calif. :$cPraeger,$d2010. 210 2$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-275-99362-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a7. What Threat? Bush's Retreat to the Mogadishu Line and the Countdown to the 9/11 Attacks8. Conclusion: America's Strategic Shortfall; Notes; Index 330 $a 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. 606 $aNational security$zUnited States 606 $aOperation Restore Hope, 1992-1993$xInfluence 606 $aSecurity, International 606 $aSomalia Affair, 1992-1997$xInfluence 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989- 607 $aUnited States$xMilitary policy 615 0$aNational security 615 0$aOperation Restore Hope, 1992-1993$xInfluence. 615 0$aSecurity, International. 615 0$aSomalia Affair, 1992-1997$xInfluence. 676 $a355/.03307309049 700 $aPatman$b Robert G$0551857 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792455103321 996 $aStrategic shortfall$93856547 997 $aUNINA