Re: DSII Question- Obstacles

Allan Goodall wrote:
...Snip...(JTL)
 This set up for the heavy
> handed capture of Aidid's lieutenants that ended with 18 Rangers and
> Delta Force dead, 73 wounded, with as many as 500 Somalis killed and
> over a thousand wounded. Of course, you Americans always do things on
> a bigger scale than us...
> 
> Allan Goodall        agoodall@sympatico.ca

Allan,
     It is possible that the troops would have done better if they
had gotten the equipment they had requested, But this was a political
operation outside the original mission statement.   The troops were
not trained for 'police' work, and the command underestimated the
enemy.	 Result, a high and unnecessary body count on both sides.    

bye for now,
John L.