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Somalia ... From the Sea - Naval War College Newport Papers 34 (Paperback)
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Somalia ... From the Sea - Naval War College Newport Papers 34 (Paperback)
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At the end of the decades-long Cold War, the United Stated
displayed its military capability in a positive manner by
responding to a severe humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The goal of
providing assistance amid starvation and a chaos appealed to the
better natures of the American people and their leaders. Highly
influenced by media coverage of starvation and privation, most
American happily embraced a series of operations conducted by their
government to alleviate the suffering that appeared pervasive
through that African nation. Regrettably, the best of intentions
could not prevent a continuing drift toward disorder, and the
American relief effort devolved into conflict and bloodshed.
Although the operations were not entirely without success, the
violence and casualties incurred during these actions left a bitter
impression that influenced American foreign policy and military
thinking for some time thereafter. In "Somalia ... From the Sea,"
Professor Gary J. Ohls has written an account of those experiences
and their subsequent impact on the policies of the United States.
Despite the fact that American incursions into Somalia entailed the
joint effort of all U.S. services, naval expeditionary forces
provided the preponderance of force during much of the involvement.
Professor Ohls illustrates this while analyzing the operational and
strategic aspects of these events. This is an account of the Somali
military relief effort and its impact on the policies of the United
States. Although American intervention in Somalia entailed joint
effort by all U.S. services, naval expeditionary forces provided
the preponderance of force. Three aspects of this study make it
unique among the literature about the Somalia experience. First is
the effort to address all the military actions of the period-from
EASTERN EXIT through UNITED SHIELD. Many accounts have covered one
or several aspects, but no major study has addressed the entire
series or attempted to describe and analyze their interrelated
nature. A second unique element is its inclusion of the U.S. Navy's
contribution to America's Somalia involvement. The naval
contribution has generally been left out of accounts. The third
unique aspect of this study is its intention to connect the Somalia
interventions and the operational and strategic concepts of the
time. This element of the subject is fascinating, since the two
activities, operations and concept development, occurred
simultaneously and interactively. Through this analysis we not only
understand the activity of the early 1990s but gain a broad insight
as to how concepts are influenced by action.
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