forces set out on a snatch-and-grab mission to arrest two of Aidid’s lieutenants.
But Operation Restore Hope would be best remembered in the United States for a spectacular debacle that has shaped foreign policy ever since.Īlmost right away, militias led by the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid began attacking and killing U.N. estimated that no fewer than 250,000 lives were saved. The effort, started in 1992, secured trade routes so food could get to Somalis. initiative supporting a United Nations resolution that aimed to halt widespread starvation. Twenty-five years ago, I was drawn to Somalia in the aftermath of Operation Restore Hope, a U.S.
