Black Hawk Down: Battle of Mogadishu
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- On October 3, 1993, the streets of Mogadishu plunged into chaos as U.S. forces clashed in a deadly battle that would be remembered as the battle of mogadishu/ Black Hawk Down. The roots of the battle can be traced to Somalia's civil war, the fall of a dictatorship, and a humanitarian crisis that prompted international intervention.
The U.N. launched Operation Restore Hope to provide relief, but the U.S. attempt to capture warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid escalated into a deadly battle.
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Martin Meredith- State of Africa After Independence
Guy Arnold - Africa A Modern History
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storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/... - step by step account of the day
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Amazing war documentary. Well documented and edited. Tnx4sharing. Watching from DUBAI
I recall watching the documentary for this incident a decade ago and the American soldier said that there was so much gunfire ringing that his teeth were violently vibrating in his mouth and causing him immense pain. Those gun battles were extremely intense.
Crazy 💯
Yes indeed !
Beautiful Documentary
Keep it up
Keep bringing more
Make a video about the events in Sudan that led up to the current civil war.
He did. It was posted two weeks ago!
@@mimilaure5774 That one was about South Sudan's road to independence! Understand my comment better!
@@KONTHEDON4 In that same video, he did an excerpt on that. But sure, a detailed video is always appreciated...
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Cool. I didn't think this would be covered on this channel.
brilliant video Tatenda
Mohammed Aidid actually had a son, Hussein Farah Aidid, who had immigrated to the USA and served as a US Marine, later working with the US mission in Somalia to help locate his father. After his military days, he returned to Somalia to help rebuilt the military and serve in politics. He has made numerous unsuccessful bids to be president so far.
Why is the UN so bad at their job
They are not allowed to actually do a job. Security forces are rarely if ever allowed to actually engage anyone.
It is really complicated I agree they really don’t seem to do much good but part of the problem is you can’t be an enforcer without actually having jurisdiction over a place, they also have the issue of being a playing ground for big powers to do their dirty work. It is a shame in theory they could do so much good if they could just do their job helping aid civilians in need but civilians are part of a war strategy so it will never work
They did engage in Korea@@Nope_handlesaretrash
Because the UN is corrupted and also puppet of America 🇺🇸
@Nope_handlesaretrash they are there to descalate things not infuse them
American forces when outgunned perform badly, even when matched with the enemy. It explains with they over spend so much. Magadishu, Tongo Tongo great examples. A special forces operator shouldn't require anything more than his rifle and a few hand granades, maybe an RPG. Anything more than that is too much. If you need anything more than that you've no business calling yourself special anything. Special forces are supposed to take on the most difficult missions that require skills beyond a regular infantry units.
The truth is Somalis casualties are not 3000 but few hundreds. Somalis have shown that they are capable defending themselves against best Americans forces. Long live Aided and his clan Habargidir.
You forgot to provide that hot introduction 😅
Are you going to do a video on Algeria 🇩🇿 VS the French 🇫🇷
One thing my American government is known for is it's deep concern for the well being of starving Africans. We certainly wouldn't suddenly start hunting for Aidid if he were standing in the way of Chevron exploiting Somali resources. That would be ridiculous.
Or worse killing the clan elders who had authority over aidid days before and saying oops it was a mistake...
I’d take this statement of yours to be sarcasm
The incident shocked the Americans. They actually underrated the Somali rebels
Americans have a bad habit of drinking their own kool-aid and conflating mass civilian casualties with combat victories.
The Somalis are overrated. To have a casualty number of 600+ to as high as 3-4K yet the Americans barely had 18 casualties is a complete failure on their part.
@kiuk_kiks We can't compare skills of highly trained commandos to that of rag tag rebels. US army actually never expected such a number of gun power to come against them.
lol. not really. americans dont pay attention and never did until hollywood dramatized it to make some money for a bad movie. i was there, we werent scared. not then, not now. we were outnumbered. that 75 of us fought thru the night against constant hit and runs attacks proved who was scared. we had no where to run, they knew where we were at and a lot of us walked out hurt but alive. your probably not even old enough to have been aliove during the event but think you shoudl make snide comments like any worthless millenial snark bot becasue talking tough on social media to you clowns equates to doing the deed. were a country that been at constant war since 1936, you think americans are scared of a little violence, dont go to one of our schools.
@@kiuk_kiksthe rate of high casualties caused by immense bombardment of Americans even far places from the war areas so don't just jump on what you don't know.
And please make a video about the New Zaire!
You said the American death toll was 18, the largest since Vietnam war era is not accurate. On February 25, 1991, an Iraqi missile attack in US base in Dhahran Saudi Arabia killed 28 US soldiers and wounded 100-150 soldiers. Also ion the battle for Khafji from 29 January to February 1st when Iraq attacked the Saudi town, 25 American soldiers were killed, 2 injured and 2 captured.
He is talking about a face to face Direct Action combat in fight with a group.
Have you not diverged? But thanks for the information.
A missile or bomb attack on idle soldiers, an ambush on a base! Both incidents you quote don't seem to qualify those victims to have been engaged in combat.
americans surprised pikachu face when their same tactics for facing unconventional warfare utterly fails every time
I was planning to watch the netflix movie yesterday but I didn't understand it but after watching this am going to watch it.
Best war movie ever
dont, the movie is terrible. you wont learn anything from it
US should not be there at all. US should not be any where but the US.
I know people like going "uwu they were just existing in their country", but let me ask: would you move to Somalia? Especially as it was back then? No? You wouldn't? Because you know the situation is and was godawful?
What does one have to do with the other, Brett?
Somalians are fighters
Somalis* but yeah we're pastoral nomads... its you and your camel vs the world
They’re still not capable of running a country after 60 years of independence.
thats not what i saw. i saw drugged up cowards.
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The Somalis shot themselves in the foot after this battle. They quite literally bit the hand that fed them.
What on earth are u on about😂 America ain’t done shit for Malis. Go learn about Somali history before civil war and after.
@@yaniswashington8828 Well America did supply both Ethiopia and Somalia during the Ogaden war. I never said Somalia's failures were solely American responsibility. It was mainly Siad Barre, ethnic and religious divisions, and the failure of a centralized government. Operation restore hope was an international attempt to aid Somalia but as I said before the war lords ruined that chance.
@@nikrose5229stfu siyaad barre was better for Somalia until Ethiopia backed the northern separatists aka isaaqs
You people need to stay out of people's backyards and stop fronting like you care, with your greedy selves.
Isaaq are 20 percent of northern Somalia.
Why is the USA so shit at war! 😅😅😅
America got its cheeks clapped and to this day pretend this never happened and have never gone back.
Isn't Somalia cool.
They lost the battle and the war too. 60 years post independence with no government and the poorest nation in Africa and the world isn’t an achievement.
Trash AI art = auto downvote
Somalia is sovereign nation.they will defend against anybody. Ethiopia face the same fate in 2007
Being humiliated? How did get that from perhaps the most one sided battle in Somali History. Operation Gothic Serpent was a tactical success. No way did the Somalis come close to humiliating TF Ranger, despite their sheer numbers, Rangers and JSOC SMUs held their ground, secured the HVTs and withdrew back to the airport. Those are facts.
"Describing Delta’s actions in the Battle of Mogadishu as a failure is even more at odds with the reality on the ground. Mark Bowden’s in-depth account, Black Hawk Down, depicted the Unit’s operators as awe-inspiring soldiers whose technical proficiency, training, and courage under fire went a long way toward preventing what otherwise might have been a far more catastrophic result. Master Sergeant Paul Howe, a former Delta operator who took part in the fight, considered it a most decisive victory for the United States, calling it “one of the most one-sided battles in American history" (Martin, Shaping the World From the Shadows)
Envy the country with heroes, I say pity the country that needs them.
Because America left and never came back. Winning some random metric of a single combat action while running with your tails between your legs in a totally tactical retreat brah is a failure. America itself was humiliated.
@Nope_handlesaretrash Politcal outcome and the battlefield outcome are 2 different things. Like the Tet in Vietnam. In somalia, the CNN effect, look it up. To humiliate insuniates a military defeat, something like Dien Bien Phu. A tactical withdrawal is very different from "a retreat", and the objective was not to take Mogadishu, but to secure HVTs. It's not opinion, though I bet the Somalis wished they could humiliate TR Ranger.
FYI: they did come back, with Mohammad Farids son ( a former US marine who served in Somalia at that time even returning to lead the transitional government). JSOC and SF with be in the country during GWOT training local CT and actively targeting local cells.
Bara Bara mate
It was a failure as the US troops were technically the best in the world. Yet, they didn't know of the terrain and made many errors that gave leverage to the Somalis. For instance, they kept on attacking the wrong compounds. When going to hunt someone and making these errors, your enemy is aware of your mistakes and is able to prepare an offensive against you as that general had the field advantage. When you have 17 members of your elite troop dead and their bodies dragged for the world to see, you lose any psychological advantage that you may have had. Because those images went around the world, for everyone in this planet, the American troops were cornered in Mogadishu and lost that battle. No matter how you try to explain the tactical gains they had, the US lost the psychological advantage.
@mimilaure5774 Mate, perception isn't reality. How the world perceived it at a time, for a time, doesnt change facts on the ground. Dont get me wrong, it was a strategic failure in the end 'cnn effect'and all, but operational success isn't measured by 'mistakes', or the 'psychological impact', it's determined by outcome and other performance traits. Making navigational errors in 1993 where GPS wasnt wide-spread, aren't mistakes, on enemy home turf no less, with a fluid situation that kept evolving due to birds being shot down and new rally points being established doesn't take away the eventual success. Challenges arised, things went wrong, but they not only did they adapt, they secured the objective and inflicted heavy casualties on an enemy that had numerical advantage, controlled the time and day of the meeting and home turf advantage, while surrounded with non-combatants.
Within 24 hours, c squadrons were replaced with a rotational squadron, and TF Ranger was combat effective again, ready to go out again.
There was no 'humiliation' or being cornered and running away during the battle. It may have been perceived strategically, America pulling out, but that's not on TF Ranger's account.
@@ssgtomen621 How many wars have been won without GPS? common now! The U.S had allies on the ground and should have leveraged their knowledge instead of arresting them. They went to Somalia arrogantly without doing the proper research and without connecting with the local allies. As a result, not only their men died, but the U.S was publicly humiliated when the bodies of those soldiers were dragged. Once again, even if they regained their footing in Somalia, they were publicly humiliated there.
Skinnies
Your dad
Was your dad’s body dragged on the roads of muqdisho
U.S. Marine funerals 😂
@@shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 They tried. 🥲😅
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