Beyond Black Hawk Down
The first historical look at what happened during the Somalia intervention; what went wrong and what lessons we should learn from it.
The story of Black Hawk Down is a familiar one. On 3 October 1993 two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and in the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu eighteen Americans and hundreds of Somalis were killed. But very few appreciate that this was just one day in a two-and...
The first historical look at what happened during the Somalia intervention; what went wrong and what lessons we should learn from it.
The story of Black Hawk Down is a familiar one. On 3 October 1993 two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down, and in the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu eighteen Americans and hundreds of Somalis were killed. But very few appreciate that this was just one day in a two-and...
