- Introduction
- 1. Operational and strategic context
- 2. Operation Eastern Exit
- 3. Operation Provide Relief
- 4. Operation Restore Hope : prelude and lodgment
- 5. Operation Restore Hope : operations and transition
- 6. Operation Continue Hope : operations and conflict
- 7. Operation Continue Hope : reinforcement and withdrawal
- 8. Operation Untied Shield
- 9. Operational and strategic observations
- Appendix A. The Weinberger doctrine
- Appendix B. The Powell doctrine
- Appendix C. UNITAF component commanders
- Appendix D. UN Security Council resolutions
- Appendix E. Seven-point agreement
- Appendix F. Somali clans and political factions
- Appendix G. Participating nations
- Appendix H. General Zinni's considerations for humanitarian and peace operations
- Appendix I. Major events chronology
- Appendix J. Acronyms and abbreviations.
"From January 1991 through March 1995, the United States conducted numerous incursions into Somalia, undertaking a variety of missions and objectives. All of the actions had humanitarian elements, yet the operations that made up this mosaic of American involvement ranged from benign to aggressive, from purely humanitarian to clearly combative. Somalia . . . From the Sea is an account that attempts to explain and analyze these actions and place them within the overarching strategic and operational concepts developing in the first years following the end of the Cold War."--Introduction
