Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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For long stretches of Black Hawk Down, the narrative is stripped to its essentials, barely acknowledging, much less answering, questions such as Why are we here? The older guys on this crew, like Eversmann, a staff sergeant with five years in at age twenty-six, had lived and trained together for years. And, in the end, what makes this book stand out form the current crop of nonfiction thrillers is that its impact and significance are so very much greater than the sum of its very many parts.

The operation created Task Force Ranger which was composed of Rangers, Delta Force, 24th Special Tactics Squadron airmen, DEVGRU Navy SEALs, and 160th SOAR aviators. The purpose was to capture several higher-up Somali warlords who were reeking havoc on the local populace in their bids for power.I had an Army friend who was there in Mogadishu at the time and said that the book was good journalism whereas the film was ridiculous. He has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for eighteen years and has won many national awards for his writing. The book describes, from the ground up, a US attack on the part of Mogadishu controlled by Somali military commander Mohamed Aidid, after Aidid had attacked a UN peacekeeping force. It's as though their firefight was a bizarre two-day adventure, like some extreme Outward Bound experience where things got out of hand and same of the guys got killed.

The only thing more phenomenal than the depth of reporting in Black Hawk Down is the quality of the writing. Derogatory nicknames, prostitution rings, firelighters with jam handed to children, it´s all happened. Molto d'impatto e con testimonianze che ben evidenziano i crimini di guerra del reich usa nel mondo, oltre allo scarso addestramento e prep di soldati e ufficiali e al loro totale disinteresse per le vittime civili. The Somali perspective, the thoughts and the anguish of the families and the widows back in the US, the political fiasco behind the involvement, Mike Durrant's ordeal in captivity.Many wear black metal bracelets inscribed with the names of their friends who died, as if to remind themselves daily that it was real. S. Special Forces’and puts you in the middle of the most intense firefight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam War.