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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ken Rutherford |
| ISBN: | 9781565492608 1565492609 |
| OCLC Number: | 209810596 |
| Description: | xix, 217 p. : map ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The last days of the modern Somali state -- Ineffective efforts to stop the chaos and death -- President Bush sets out to save Somalia -- Armed humanitarian intervention -- Armed nation-building -- The mission falls apart -- Past as prologue: withdrawal and re-engagement. |
| Other Titles: | US and UN intervention in Somalia |
| Responsibility: | Kenneth R. Rutherford. |
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Abstract:
The international humanitarian intervention in Somalia was one of the most challenging operations ever conducted by US and UN military forces. Until Somalia, the UN had never run a Chapter VII exercise with large numbers of troops operating under a fighting mandate. It became a deadly test of the UN's ability carry out a peace operation using force against an adversary determined to sabotage the intervention.Humanitarianism Under Fire is a candid, detailed historical and political narrative of this remarkably complicated intervention that was one of the first cases of multilateral action in the post-Cold War era. Rutherford presents new information gleaned from interviews and intensive research in five countries. His evidence shows how Somalia became a turning point in the relationship between the UN and US and how policy and strategy decisions in military operations continue to refer back to this singular event, even today. -- Back cover.
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