With United Nations aid money pouring in and experienced Italian administrators who had come to see Somalia as their home, infrastructural and educational development blossomed.

PAGE A11 U.S. Sees Somalia as a Model Pentagon strategists say they hope that the recent military operations in Somalia by American commandos, and the use of the Ethiopian Army as a surrogate force, can become a blueprint.

However, Mohamed Farrah Aidid saw UNOSOM II as a threat to his power and in June 1993 his militia attacked Pakistan Army troops, attached to UNOSOM II, (see Somalia (March 1992 to February 1996)) in Mogadishu inflicting over 80 casualties.

First step towards the right direction is to see Somalia and Somaliland as two different neighbouring states.

Few respondents saw Somalia posing a significant military threat to the United States, especially in the post-cold-war era.

At various times during the cold war both the U.S. and the former Soviet Union saw Somalia, a largely rural, nomadic country on the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, as a place of strategic importance.

He also visited Haiti, to see the effects of the earthquake, and Somalia and Libya in 2011.

They tend to follow stages of government paralysis - see Lebanon, total ungovernability with regional warlords - see Afghanistan, civil war - see Lebanon again, Somalia, or alternatively brutal dictatorship - see Iraq.