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Autore: |
Patman Robert G
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Titolo: |
Strategic shortfall [[electronic resource] ] : the Somalia Syndrome and the march to 9/11 / / Robert G. Patman ; foreword by Martin N. Stanton
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Pubblicazione: | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355/.03307309049 |
Soggetto topico: | Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993 - Influence |
Somalia Affair, 1992-1997 - Influence | |
Security, International | |
National security - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Military policy |
United States Foreign relations 1989- | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Strategic shortfall ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-49213-6 |
9786612492136 | |
1-57356-726-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459651403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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