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FRONTLINE explores the most violent U.S. combat firefight since Vietnam, in which elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force were ambushed in Modadishu, Somalia. What started out as an operation to capture warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid turned into a tragic firefight that left eighteen Americans dead and eighty four wounded.

HOME ABOUT SEARCH COMMENTS The Civil War In Somalia The African country of Somalia is a place of great suffering. There is famine, war, and all the crimes that go along with them. Anyone looking for a simple-minded good-guy/bad-guy viewpoint should stop reading now, because this story, like all stories, is more complicated than that. This article focuses on the period 1991-1995, when Somalia's ...

Cato Foreign Policy Briefing No. 20 December 18, 1992 SETTING A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT IN SOMALIA by TED GALEN CARPENTER Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute and author of A Search for Enemies: America's Alliances after the Cold War. Executive Summary The Bush administration's decision to send nearly 30, 000 U.S. troops to Somalia is ...

Policy Analysis No. 205 March 28, 1994 THE SOMALI CRISIS: TIME FOR AN AFRICAN SOLUTION by George B. N. Ayittey George B. N. Ayittey is an associate professor of economics at the American University and president of the Free Africa Foundation. His most recent book, Africa Betrayed (Cato and St. Martins, 1992), won the Mencken Award for best book of 1992. Executive Summary Somalia's societal ...