In this absorbing memoir Stanton reveals the mounting futility experienced by the ‘Restore Hope’ soldiers, sent into Somalia in December 1992, as they struggled to accomplish a vague and constantly changing mission, that eventually culminated in the streets of Mogadishu as infamously retold by Mark Bowden in Black Hawk Down. - An insider’s account of the critical events leading up to the battle of Mogadishu - America’s post-Cold War military experience