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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Download difficulties are probably because it isn't an article. It is a 233-page case study. Here is the foreword:
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i'll probably scan the article tommorrow at work...gotta love that T1 line...
some comments on the forward...
the marines are great troops...they are not capable of supporting a JTF...they are not UW capable, although the expeditionary brigade deployed to Mogoville was allegedly SO capable...that sobriquet was attached by the USMC, as they were trying to avoid irrelevance in the post Cold War era (my comment) and not based on any independent confirmation...
nation-building has to be done in the context of a long-term committment...when we went to Somalia, we were to be there six-twelve weeks...long enough to apply overwhelming force (but the Air Farce grounded damn near all the C5As over the time of deployment, being the Christmas holidays) and let the UN marshal enough troops to get the job done...any OPLAN that relies on the UN for anything is flawed...and, of course, there was that minor detail of an internal transition in power with a draft dodging pacifist replacing a real American in the White House...
peacekeeping does not work in zero sum societies...in Somalia, we would have had to back someone to be relevant...fence sitting doubles the numbers of enemies you have...neutrality is not an African concept, particularly as it pertains to clan warfare...we should have checked our Eurocentric balance-of-power politics at the door....but majors who mentioned this were told, diplomatically, to shut the fuck up....
i hope to have more after i've read the paperwork...i'll be interested to see who the contributors are and if any of them had a PSYOP or SF background...