Operation Restore Hope

United States history

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Somalia

  • Alfred Thayer Mahan
    In 20th-century international relations: Three tests

    …in office Bush had approved Operation Restore Hope for the dispatch to Somalia of some 28,000 American troops. He styled it a humanitarian exercise, and in December 1992 Marines landed safely in Mogadishu, with the aim of turning control of the operation over to the UN as soon as possible.…

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