Somalia...From the Sea

The most recent issue of our Newport Papers monograph series is, Somalia . . . From the Sea, by Gary J. Ohls. Dr. Ohls, of the Naval Postgraduate School, has written an account of the repeated U.S. attempts in the 1990s, in the framework of newly developed expeditionary doctrine, to rescue Somalia from the chaos and starvation that had engulfed it. These attempts were, as Dr. Hattendorf notes, to leave “a bitter impression that influenced American foreign policy and military thinking for some time thereafter.”