MOGADISHU
MOGADISHU
(AKA Black Hawk Down, Battle of the Black Sea, Operation Gothic
Serpent, Somalia, Task Force Ranger)
BOOKS
DT407 .A4 1995 Allard, Kenneth. Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned.
Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press, 1995.
DT407 .D45 1994 DeLong, Kent, and Steven Tuckey. Mogadishu! Heroism and Tragedy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.
DT407.4 .B69 1999 Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: a story of modern war. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999.
DT407.4 .P48 2000 Peterson, Scott. Me Against My Brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda. New York: Routledge, 2000.
DT407.42 .B37 2006 Eversmann, Matt and Dan Schilling. The Battle of Mogadishu: First Hand Accounts from the men of Task Force Ranger. New York: Presidio Press, 2006
DT407.42 .B398 2013 Baxter, Peter. Somalia: U.S. Intervention, 1992-1994. London: Helion Press, 2013.
DT407.42 .C48 2012 Chun, Clayton K.S. Gothic Serpent : Black Hawk Down Mogadishu, 1993. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2012.
DT407.42 .D87 2003 Durant, Michael J. In the Company of Heroes. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2003.
DT407.42 .W49 2015 Whetstone, Michael. Madness in Mogadishu: commanding the 10th Mountain Division’s Quick Reaction Company during Black Hawk Down. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015.
U262 .I73 2004 Isby, David C. Leave no man behind: liberation and capture missions. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
U262 .M367 2002 McKinney, Mike. Chariots of the Damned: helicopter special operations from Vietnam to Kosovo. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
AUDIO/EBOOKS
DT407.4 .B69 1999 Black Hawk Down: a story of modern war. Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 1999.
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Baumann, Robert F., et.al. My Clan against the world: U.S. and Coalition forces in Somalia, 1992-1994. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, 2004.
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/clan.pdf
Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down. Philadelphia Enquirer, 1997. http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/nov16/rang16.asp
Bowden, Mark. Maps to accompany Black Hawk Down. Philadelphia Enquirer, 1997.
http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/maps.asp
DTIC DOCUMENTS
To access, enter the document number (DN) in the search field at http://www.dtic.mil.
Karcher, Timothy M. “Understanding the Victory Disease, from the Little Big Horn, to Mogadishu, to the Future”. Army Command and General Staff College. Defense Technical Information Center.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a416034.pdf
DN: ADA416034
Sangvic, Roger N. “Battle of Mogadishu: Anatomy of a Failure.” Army Command and General Staff College, 16 December 1998. Defense Technical Information Center. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a366316.pdf
DN: ADA366316
MONOGRAPHS
Di Tomasso, Thomas. Battle of the Black Sea: Bravo Company, 3rd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, 3-4 October 1993. Fort Benning, GA: MCoE Student Paper, 1994.
http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/other/STUP5/DiTomassoThomas%20CPT.pdf
Lechner, James O. A Monograph of Combat Operations in Mogadishu, Somalia: conducted by Task Force Ranger. Fort Benning, GA: MCoE Student Paper, 1994.
http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/other/STUP5/LechnerJamesO%20%20CPT.pdf
Perino, Larry D. Battle of the Black Sea. Fort Benning, GA: MCoE Student Paper. http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/other/STUP5/PerinoLarryD%20%20CPT.pdf
Rysewyk, Lee A. CPT. Experiences of Executive Officer from Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and Task Force Ranger during the Battle of the Black Sea on 3-4 October 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Fort Benning, GA: McoE Student Paper, 1994.
http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/other/STUP5/RysewykLee%20A.%20CPT.pdf
Smith, Kurt J. Task Force Ranger in Somalia: 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta, 3-4 October 1993. Fort Benning, GA: McoE Student Paper.
http://www.benning.army.mil/library/content/Virtual/Donovanpapers/other/STUP5/SmithKurt%20CPT.pdf
ARTICLES (articles are in Vertical File “Mogadishu” at MCoE HQ Donovan Research Library)
Ecklund, Marshall. Task Force Ranger vs. Urban Somali Guerrillas in Mogadishu: an analysis of Guerrilla and Counterguerrilla Tactics and Techniques used during Operation Gothic Serpent. Small Wars & Insurgencies. Vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 47-69.
Tovy, Tal. Are the Principles of War Applicable to Special Task Forces? Operation Gothic Serpent Re-examined. The RUSI Journal, vol. 154, no. 2, 2009. pp. 56-62.
U. S. Army Forces, Somalia. 10th Mountain Division (LI) After Action Report, Summary.
2 June 1993.
U. S. Special Operations Command, and U.S. Army Special Operations History Office. Task Force Ranger Operations in Somalia 3-4 October 1993. 1 June 1994.
DVDs
Ambush in Mogadishu. PBS Frontline, 2002.
DVD-1060
Black Hawk Down. Culver City, CA: Columbia-Tristar Home Entertainment, 2002.
DVD-0195
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