@article{Buchanan_2011, title={US failures in strategy and the ‘CNN effect’}, volume={17}, url={https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/360}, DOI={10.24135/pjr.v17i2.360}, abstractNote={<div class="field field-name-field-review-authors field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even">Reviewed book by Robert G. Patman</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-issue-date field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Publication date: October, 2011</div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>In this short, but interesting book, Robert Patman argues that US policy failures in the lead up to and aftermath of the October 1993 ‘Blackhawk Down’ incident in Mogadishu facilitated the conditions for the terrorist attacks on the US mainland in 2001. The thesis that the US merely reaped the bad fruit of its foreign policy on 9/11 is not new, but Patman’s approach is.</p> </div> </div> </div&gt;}, number={2}, journal={Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa}, author={Buchanan, Paul G}, year={2011}, month={Oct.}, pages={218-222} }