It was the sixth and final raid, launched on October 3, 1993, that became the Battle of the Black Sea or better known as Black Hawk Down, a story written by Mark Bowden. The U.S involvement in Somalia was a peacekeeping mission to try and bring Democracy to the area. It was a planned raid on a meeting of Somali warlords, hoping to destabilize Mohammed Farrah Aidid from the political equation in which to make the …showed first 75 words of 893 total…

…showed last 75 words of 893 total…trained and equipped primarily to work in darkness. Commanders who thought it unlikely that Somalis could shoot down helicopters saw five shot down, three limped back to base before crash-landing. Inproper weapons and gear could have assisted in the mission, instead of proved fatal to the American forces. America went to war in Mogadishu in an effort to remove warlord Aidid from the political equation, but encountered stiff and bloody resistance from Aidid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**