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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patman, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993--Influence.

Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993.

Security, International.

Somalia Affair, 1992-1997--Influence.

Somalia Affair, 1992-1997.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

United States.

United States--Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216019763

9786612492136

9781282492134

1282492136

9781573567268

1573567264

OCLC:

609857358