The Obama Administration secretly deployed an unknown number of troops to Somalia in October, officials are now confirming, and those troops remain there to this day as “military advisers.”
They are the first US boots on the ground in Somalia since the calamitous 1993 deployment Operation Gothic Serpent, which was couched as a humanitarian deployment but ended with the Black Hawk Down incident and the deaths of massive numbers of civilians.
The new troops are coming under no such pretense, or indeed any pretense at all since the administration chose to keep the deployment secret from the American public for months on end.
Though the number of “military advisers” is believed to be fewer than two dozen at the moment, such deployments have often served as the vanguard for massive escalations, and protracted conflicts like the Vietnam War similarly began with the deployment of a handful of advisers.
If you don't get Vietnam right in Vietnam, try Iraq, then Afghanistan, the Somalia ….
deployment did not seem to matter very much
Who will stop the WARMONGER BEAST AMERIKA?
Who will stop the WARMONGER BEAST AMERIKA?
There have been US military 'secretly deployed' to parts of Somalia for the past 15 years. You don't thin k the Somali government or even the AU 'peacekeepers' are 'standing up' by themselves do you?