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Chasing bandits in the badlands : Australian soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 / Bob Breen.

Chasing bandits in the badlands : Australian soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 / Bob Breen.
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ISBN 9781922896209
Author Breen, Bob (author)
Title Chasing bandits in the badlands : Australian soldiers adjusting attitudes in Somalia 1993 / Bob Breen.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Newport, NSW : Big Sky Publishing, 2023.
Description 218 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note Scheduled to be published January 2023.
Summary In January 1993, the Australian government sent just under one thousand young men and women to serve under American command in a violent, impoverished, starving society. Most males over the age of twelve either carried or had access to a gun, and most Somali men had been fighting a vicious civil war for years. Australian soldiers and their teams had to gain control of the streets of Baidoa and surrounding towns. This contest was not 'find, fight and kill' warfare. There was no decisive victory or defeat. The aim was to detect 'the bad boys' and deter and de-escalate their violence rather than escalate hostilities to success through 'body count'. This mode of operation was not community policing by soldiers either. It involved adjusting attitudes forcefully and assuring uncomfortable consequences for bad behaviour and ultimately lethal responses to armed challenges. The world looked over their shoulders.
Level General.
Subjects Australia. -- Army -- Stability operations
Australia. -- Australian Army. -- Royal Australian Regiment. -- Battalion, 1st
Multinational armed forces
Peacekeeping forces, Australian
Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993
Australia -- Armed Forces -- Foreign countries
Call number 2023.057
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A00963484 2023.057
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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