In December of 1992 the United States sent troops to end civil conflicts and provide humanitarian aid to the African country of Somalia. This mission ended for the U.S. ... World politics had undergone a revolutionary change just a few years before the U.S. intervention with the end of the cold war and the emergence of an international system overshadowed by U.S. ... In an international system where there is no rival superpower the U.S. ... If there was still a balance of power provided by the Soviet Union, as there was during the cold war, the strategy for dealing with Somalia would most likely been different for the U.S. In the cold war world any large U.S. ... Somalia and its neighbouring rival Ethiopia were both pawns used by the U.S. ... The superpowers allegiances shifted between these two countries with the Soviets first backing Somalia’s socialist dictator Siad Barre but then switched
favour over to Ethiopia. After this change in allies Somalia soon became America’s satellite and began to receive financial aid in the amount of 1.8 billion dollars throughout the 1980’s (Stevenson, 1995, 18). This is a logical reason for the U.S. to help Somalia in its time of need even though it is no longer a strategic asset in cold war games. To commit large amounts of money and support to Somalia and then ignore it in a time of crisis would be a blow to the image of the U.S. ... The Situation in Somalia had escalated into an international incident around 1992. ...
A large taskforce of 25,000 troops landed in Somalia on the 9th of December with the goal of securing the region and supplying food to the starving Somalis. ... Going into Somalia became a unique situation for the U.S. The strategic advantage of sending troops to the horn of Africa was non-existent and it generated the role of “policeman” which might be considered more of a U.
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