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A 5 page review of the book detailing the 1993 downing of two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu and the fighting which extended through the night. This event now holds the record for the longest sustained American firefight since Vietnam. The author of this paper contends that if Bowden’s book can be criticized, that criticism would revolve around the fact that it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American helicopters and their crews’ survival through the night and devotes relatively little effort to explaining the circumstances behind that downing. This paper fills in the gaps on those circumstances. No additional sources are listed.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPblkHwk.rtf
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Mark Bowdens "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War" is an extraordinarily detailed account of the 1993 U.S. military
operation in Mogadishu which resulted in the deaths of eighteen American soldiers plus in excess of seventy American injuries, an estimated five hundred dead Somalis, and another one-thousand injured Somalis.
Another of the long-lasting retributions of this botched operation, however, was the guilt levied on the U.S. government itself by the fact that the powers that were allowed the
affair to proceed despite the fact that it was inadequately planned and insufficiently supported. "Black Hawk Down" provides the reader more than a blow by blow account of a
military disaster, therefore, it provides us with the ever-present reminder of a foreign policy disaster, a disaster which is solely attributable to the Clinton administration.
To understand the events which unfold in "Black Hawk Down" it is necessary to have some understanding of the world situation leading up to the disaster. Bowden
provides a brief outline of that situation. If the book can be criticized, in fact, it is through the fact that it devotes practically all of its attention to
a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American helicopters and their crews survival through the night and devotes relatively little effort to explaining the circumstances behind
that downing. In effect, the events leading up to "Black Hawk Down" can be traced back in time to the presidential
administration preceding the Clinton administration. That administration was headed by George Bush. Operation Restore Hope was initiated in 1992 while George Bush was at the head of the
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