Somalian+Intervention

=​Somalian Intervention=

Overview
The intervention of Somalia is interesting, it was for a good cause, yet it is extremely controversial. It started as giving the poor citizens of Somalia food. However some 80% of every supply drop off was stolen by warlords and used to get weapons. The people then became to hate us, because of many reasons as well. One is we were blamed for the food they lacked after we promised them it and when we became concentrated on capturing the local warlords they became second in our minds. Thousands of thousands of Somalians were either killed or injured in one attempt to capture a warlord named Mohammed Aideed. It went badly because we received bad intelligence of a meeting and our convoys were attacked at almost every corner, and our helicopters shot down. It started originally as a UN peace mission but over a year it ended up that w were trying to start a government there and that is what ultimately got the local warlords after us, or against us. The transition to nation building of called "mission creep" after it started. It was called the Somalian disaster after we pulled out. Somalia was intervened in because the citizens were dying everyday of genocide, starvation, and an explosion of violence.

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Critical Issue
Somalia reached a sort of conclusion during a raid on October 3, 1993. The raid was meant to capture a local warlord named Mohammed Aideed in the city of Mogadishu. The intelligence we received however was not very good and he was not there, we captured over 20 people but none were Mohammed Aideed. Before we got to the building the bad intelligence said Mohammed Aideed was the citizens burned tires, to warn everyone we were in the city. The Somalians also blocked streets so our convoys were blocked and had to take long ways around to either get out or to get to fallen UH-60 Black Hawks, and A/MH-6 Little Bird helicopters. There was also shooting on our convoys at almost every corner, it became controversial because the person in charge ordered the convoys back so the prisoners could be interrogated, and in doing so our soldiers were left behind. Our teams were also separated successfully by the Somalians because when they shot down our helicopters the closest people had to go go over to protect any survivors, and and also to protect our secrets that are in the helicopters. The second reason was not as important as the the first but it was still a reason. The battle in the capitol city of Mogadishu was a major reason we pulled out of Somalia even though majority of the American public still supported the intervention of Somalia. Lastly senior members of president Bill Clinton's administration such as secretary of Defense John Deutch strongly opposed the intervention all together. It was not a complete failure however we captured two of the people we were aiming to captured, barely anyone knows this so it was not a complete failure.

Conclusion
The battle of Mogadishu was a major reason we pulled out of Somalia for two main reasons. It also taught us a lesson and we were after that more careful with intervention in countries in Africa. One reason Mogadishu got us to pull out is that a footage was made of the triumphant Somalians dragging one of our helicopter pilots out and parading his body through the streets, even after the video was seen in America people did not ask for us to pull out it mainly shook the people in the White House and the Pentagon. The second reason is that is kept us out of Somalia after and other countries in Africa because it showed it was a high risk operation with little to no positives in the end. The firefight between U.S. Army Rangers, members of the elite Delta Force, and forces loyal to Somali leader Mohammed Aideed led to eighteen Americans dead, seventy-three wounded after the hours of intense fighting. Somalia made us not support the UN in intervening in the African country of Rwanda. The number of Somalian dead and wounded are not exactly sure, because of how much did die,but some experts estimate around 1,000 to 1500 civilians, and loyalists. A movie called "Black Hawk Down" was created because of this conflict.