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SOMALIA OPERATIONS: LESSONS LEARNED
Americans may best remember Somalia for the ill-fated opera-tion on 3 October 1993 in which eighteen United States soldiers died during the unsuccessful attempt by Task Force Ranger to capture clan leader Mohammed Farrah Aided This tragic event caused a fundamental reexamination of United States policy and ultimately resulted in the complete withdrawal of all United States troops from Somalia in the spnng of 1994. In spite of thls disastrous turn of events, the United States military's involvement in Somalia provid. ed valuable les~ansin the conduct of pe...
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