Not Mogadishu, of course. We learned those lessons — prepare the folks back home for losses, fund and arm our guys appropriately, talk the talk about staying the course, train and prepare for urban warfare operations, befriend the locals if you can. Even better, this time we have lots of international and U.S. taxpayer loan backing, and American companies are locked in high and tight to get the lion's share of the Iraqi rebuilding, reorganizing and oil field development contracts. Now that we are holding down the palaces in Baghdad, we might want to consider the other lessons of Somalia. … Continue reading Lessons From Somalia