BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WARFARE

dc.creator	Abel Esterhuyse
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:05Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:05Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/30-1-170
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e290e70754f24a7eb4869317d3eb1321
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/7977
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/e290e70754f24a7eb4869317d3eb1321
dc.description	<p>Robert D. Kaplan in his illuminating article "The Coming Anarchy", published in the Atlantic Monthly of February 1994, emphasises the fact that <em>"Africa</em> <em>may be marginal in terms of conventional late-twentieth-century conceptions of</em> <em>strategy, but in an age of cultural and racial clash, when national defense </em>is <em>increasingly local, Africa's distress will exert a destabilizing influence on the United</em> <em>States ". </em>This point was clearly illustrated during 1993 in a battle between American Colin Gray; Modern Strategy; a logical pathway of strategic theory, its history and the future; The Strategist's Toolkit forces and Somali militias in Mogadishu. Bowden's book focuses on this military action on 3 October 1993, when a US task force consisting of US Rangers and Delta force operators embarked on a mission to capture two high-ranking deputies of the militia leader Mohammed Farrah Aideed. Instead of a quick success, a so-called surgical operation, the American forces found themselves surrounded and pinned down in a hostile African city. The result was a drawn-out battle in which the fierce resistance of the Somali militia and civilians and the downing of two helicopters unhinged the American forces</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/170
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 30, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Somali militias in Mogadishu
dc.subject	militia leader Mohammed Farrah Aideed
dc.subject	surgical operation
dc.subject	American forces
dc.subject	military action on 3 October 1993
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.title	BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WARFARE
dc.type	Article