Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

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S. Rangers providing security, to drop into Aidid’s neighborhood in broad daylight, quickly detain their targets, and get out. It is a very difficult listen,it took me four days to listen to as I had to stop listening, process what was going on,. A convoy of Humvees, rapidly filling with wounded, drove around in circles, unable to find the Black Hawk.

In 1943, a Life photojournalist named George Strock took a picture of three dead Americans on the beach of Buna-Gona. irregular opponents who adopt to asymmetrical warfare and counter Western technological superiority by using terrain, subterfuge, or hiding among the population. The few paved avenues were crumbling and littered with mountains of trash, debris, and the rusted hulks of burned-out vehicles. The cinematic spin actually takes away from some of the heroism and deep personal dilemmas that the Rangers and Delta Force operatives fighting in Mogadishu faced that day.The book was accompanied by a video, Somalia: Good Intentions, Deadly Results, produced by KVR Video, that was aired on CNN on 24 March 1999 in a 57-minute version, as Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War; it later won an Emmy. Heightening this sense of disorienting fragmentation, the author frequently interrupted the main narrative to discuss what was, by and large, rather essential background information. The only tall structures still standing after years of civil war were the ornate white towers of mosques—Islam being the only thing all Somalia held sacred. The published online package contained videos, audio clips, graphics, maps, and links to external resources. I am a big fan of military bio's, combat orientated and I have read some stunning pieces of history, this is outstanding in every dimension, Its an old book now but well worth the electronic version, I will be reading this again and again, So much information to take in and be in astonishment of, disbelief, dark humour, and awe of the bravery of the individual soldiers and the fact that more soldiers didn't die, Stories like this should be taught to Officers who have never faced combat, so they can see what command structure and communication can do for better or as in this case worse, for the troops on the ground.

As the helicopter force swept in over it, gliding back in from the ocean and then banking right and sprinting northeast along the city’s western edge, Mogadishu spread beneath them in its awful reality, a catastrophe, the world capital of things-gone-completely-to-hell. Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. I have played the computer game, watched the movie at least a couple of times, and finally got the chance to read the book. There were four of the amazing AH-6 Little Birds, two-seat bubble-front attack helicopters that could fly just about anywhere.Mark Bowden is the author of Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Hue 1968, Guests of the Ayatollah, Killing Pablo and a dozen other books.