Strategic Shortfall

This seminal work argues that the disastrous raid in Mogadishu in 1993, and America's resulting aversion to intervening in failed states, led to the Rwanda and Bosnia genocides and to the 9/11 attacks.

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
The New Global Context and the Disintegration of the Somali State	p. 1
About Face: President Bush's Decision to Intervene in Somalia	p. 21
A Shattered Hope: The U.S.-UN Intervention in Somalia	p. 41
What If? The Alternative History of Australian Involvement in Somalia	p. 65
The Somalia Syndrome and the Rise of al Qaeda	p. 79
Too Little Too Late: Clinton's Growing Fears about al Qaeda and the Long Shadow of the Somalia Syndrome	p. 101
What Threat? Bush's Retreat to the Mogadishu Line and the Countdown to the 9/11 Attacks	p. 125
Conclusion: America's Strategic Shortfall	p. 141
Notes	p. 149
Index	p. 173
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