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Somalia Military History

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This is a comprehensive history of US and Russian military involvement in Ethiopia and Somalia. Well, mostly US.

David Halberstam quotes the U.S. Secretary of Defense telling an associate, “We’re sending the Rangers to Somalia. We are not going to be able to control them. They are like overtrained pit bulls. No one controls them.”) Shootings at U.S. military roadblocks became increasingly commonplace and Somalis witnessed scenes of mostly white American forces harassing and shooting their black countrymen.

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