Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11

by Robert G. Patman

This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, this book argues, it was not the 9/11 attacks that transformed the international security environment. Instead, it was "Somali Syndrome," an aversion to intervening in failed states that began in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275993620
• ISBN13: 9780275993627
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"