Black Hawk Down Book Report

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War is a non-fiction book by journalist Mark Bowden. Black Hawk Down is a non-fiction book about Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. The narrator takes on the role of telling the story by using a voice as a journalist. Background before the conflict started in December, 1992 when George Busch, United States President, ordered that troops from the United States Military be sent to a mission to Somalia located in eastern Africa. This mission was named Operation Restore Hope. It original intent was to aid Africans during their civil war, but it than transformed into the United States beginning to interfere politically.
The non-fiction story is based off a series of events that happened on October 3, 1993 in Somalia. The plotline starts when a helicopter raid is ordered with the main goal of Adid's, warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid, two lieutenants from a house in a part of Mogadishu, Somalia in which Aidid had a large number followers. The mission began at 3:00 p.m. was estimated to take no longer than an hour. The plan of the mission was to have the United States helicopters fly into the location, crash onto a building, abduct the men, and then have land vehicles assist for departure. During the execution of the plan the
Things were becoming out of control. The men were beginning to panic because they were not prepared for battle like this. All order was lost and the men basically began to do what they felt necessary to survive. They began trying to recuse people from the crash sites. Black Hawk was told to take supplies and retrieve injured Rangers as darkness fell because men would be staying overnight there. After dark shooting declined. Around midnight Rangers could hear rescue teams showing up and getting closer. After rescue teams showed up they started retrieving alive people. The vehicles did not move as they tried to release Wolcott from