Battle of Mogadishu

Battle of Mogadishu United States (US) forces lacked communication, ignored intelligence, and underestimated the enemy during the Battle of Mogadishu. The conflict is one of the worst military tragedies in recent US history. The US forces did not use the intelligence provided properly. Good intelligence practice was not enforced. The lack of discipline cost many American and Somali their lives. History of the Battle of Mogadishu President Clinton sent American special operation forces to Somalia to capture Mohamed Farrah Aidid. (Editors, 2016) They called it Operation Gothic Serpent. The operation started out as a relief effort at first. The United Nations (UN) and US wanted to provide food relief for the decaying city of Mogadishu. Years…

Primarily, recorded history verifies North America and Somalia actually engaging in combat off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia. The name for the war Black Hawk Down the film made an adaptation of is called “The Battle of Mogadishu”. This war did happen in the early 1990s as shown in the film, under the George H.W. Bush administration and thus went on briefly into the Clinton administration as well. It can be proven that Somalia and Ethiopia were once a unified country, however aside from severe…

The Battle of Mogadishu provides an example of a grand strategy that lost its focus along with the critical component of a winning strategy, “control”. Additionally, it serves as an anecdote for depicting the difficulty associated with urban warfare and the need for improvements in order to be more effective. Background Nine years after gaining independence in 1960, Somalia was overtaken in a coup, led by Mohamed Siad Barre. Despite his oppressive dictatorial rule, Barre maintained power until…

Kenya delivering 28,000 tons of food. President Bush was replaced with Bill Clinton and the UN missions shifted from humanitarian action to combat operations. The new leader of the Somali National alliance (SNA) was Mohamed Farrah Aidid who was also supported by Al-Qaeda. To deal with the starvation and SNA attacks and control measures. Bill Clinton approved for 441 US personnel to arrive in Mogadishu to be the main body of Task Force Ranger (TFR). TFR included C Squadron Delta Force, 3rd…

Battle of Mogadishu The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as Black Hawk Down took place on the 3rd and 4th of October 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. What was supposed to be an in and out mission capturing General Mohamed Farrah Aidid which should have taken only a couple of hours at most, turned into a daylong nightmare for the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment, and the 1st Special Forces Detachment-Delta. Throughout the 1980 and 1990 violence in Somalia was rising. Warlords took advantage…

In addition to the direct failures of the intervention, we can learn a great deal about the American failure through the consequences of Somalia. Domestic politics drives foreign policy, and in the case of Somalia, the domestic backlash sheds light on what was a step in the wrong direction for security as seen through Presidential Decision Directive 25. After the tragedy of the battle of Mogadishu and Black Hawk Down, President Clinton was facing mounting domestic pressure to ‘bring the boys…

The movie Black Hawk Down takes place on October 3rd and 4th of 1993. This film displays a life threatening mission that the U.S. Army Rangers try to overcome. The mission is called to capture two Somalian war lords. Once the mission starts disaster is brought upon from the beginning of the battle to the end. Within the movie, Black Hawk Down, you follow the character of Sgt. Eversman, who leads The Ranger unit Chalk Four into the first crash cite of the Black Hawk Chopper. Although most of…

Looking back at the Battle of Mogadishu, also known as Operation Rescue Hope particularly during the events of the third and fourth of October in nineteen ninety-three it is shown that maintaining high technological intelligence assets is what typically leads to failed goals. During Operation Rescue Hope more commonly known as Black Hawk Down U.S Forces utilized special operations in response to continue failed efforts to apprehend Mohammed Farah Aidid by the United Nations (UN) forces. This…

Throughout history, our great nation has overcome some of the toughest challenges in war. From the beginning, during the Revolutionary War, this great nation’s military has fought well when all hope was lost, and defeated its enemy. In 1941, once again, our nation was called upon to defend our nation against a relentless opponent during WWII. The Army has always fought great battles against its enemy. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were tests of our nation’s might. To this day, our…

In the part of N.S.D.Q. in the book Black Hawk Down, the army rangers who were stranded in Mogadishu, Somalia, have made it back to a Pakistani base. The base was an abandoned soccer stadium and was being used to house all of the rangers who were stuck in Mogadishu for just less than 24 hours, being shot at and killed by Somali civilians. The men who were stranded were picked up by Malaysian men and were taken back to the soccer stadium. The men knew that they had been defeated, and they were…