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The Unified Task Force (UNITAF), also known as Operation Restore Hope, was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational military force deployed to Somalia from 5 December 1992 to 4 May 1993.
In the view of Walter Clarke, a high ranking US official involved in Operation Restore Hope, and Jeffrey Herbst, Associate Professor at Princeton University, "The intervention in Somalia was not an abject failure; an estimated 100,000 lives were saved. But its mismanagement should be an object lesson for peacekeepers...on other such missions."
During Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Provide Comfort II, the MEU delivered food, supplies and medicine and transported Kurds to "safe havens" and temporary tent cities. The 24th MEU SOC (Special Operations Capable) took part in Operation Restore Hope and Operation Continue Hope, in Somalia during March and April 1994. The MEU provided ...
Operation Solace was the Australian Defence Force's main contribution to the Unified Task Force (UNITAF) which was a United States led, United Nations sanctioned, multinational force which operated in the Republic of Somalia from 9 December 1992 to 4 May 1993.
The 26th MEU also supported Operation Restore Hope off the coast of Somalia and participated in continued operations in Bosnia. Three years later the 26th MEU launched Operation Silver Wake , evacuating U.S. citizens and foreign nationals from Albania , and also participated in Operation Guardian Retrieval , the staging of forces in the Congo ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
There are a number of military operations with names similar to Operation Hope. They are, chronologically: Operation Mount Hope III, 1988 US mission to capture a crashed Mi-24; Operation Provide Hope, 1992 US Navy humanitarian mission; Operation Restore Hope, 1992-3 US operation in Somalia; Operation Support Hope, 1994 US military relief ...
On 9 December 1992, elements of 3rd AABn attached to the 15th MEU landed on the beach just outside the Mogadishu International Airport in Somalia in support of Operation Restore Hope. These initial forces were soon followed by Bravo, Delta, and H&S Companies of 3rd AABn. These units' operations stretched from Mogadishu to Bardera, Baidoa, and ...