US failures in strategy and the ‘CNN effect’

Reviewed book by Robert G. Patman Publication date: October, 2011 In this short, but interesting book, Robert Patman argues that US policy failures in the lead up to and aftermath of the October 1993 ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu facilitated the conditions for the terro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul G Buchanan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pacific Media Centre 2011-10-01
Series:Pacific Journalism Review
Online Access:https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/360
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Summary:Reviewed book by Robert G. Patman Publication date: October, 2011 In this short, but interesting book, Robert Patman argues that US policy failures in the lead up to and aftermath of the October 1993 ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu facilitated the conditions for the terrorist attacks on the US mainland in 2001. The thesis that the US merely reaped the bad fruit of its foreign policy on 9/11 is not new, but Patman’s approach is.
ISSN:1023-9499
2324-2035