This document summarizes several US military actions taken under President Clinton in the 1990s, including missile strikes against Iraq in response to plots against Bush and attacks on Kurdish cities, operations in Somalia including Operation Gothic Serpent where 19 US soldiers were killed, Clinton's decision to withdraw troops from Somalia after casualties, the Rwandan genocide where 900,000 were killed with no US intervention, strikes against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan in retaliation for US embassy bombings, and NATO airstrikes in Kosovo under Operation Allied Force to stop ethnic cleansing by Milosevic.

1. • A. Iraqi Missile Attacks
– June 26, 1993-Iraqi HQ hit after alleged plot to
assassinate H. W. Bush
– September 3, 1996-Baghdad hit after Saddam
attacked Irbil (Kurdish city)-had UN Approval
– December 16, 1998-4 days of attacks by US & GB
• Operation Desert Fox-650 air strikes & 400 tomahawk
cruise missiles (more than Gulf War)
Military Action

2. • Operation Gothic Serpent
• Clinton-begins to remove troops after Restore Hope
• UN tried to bring political stability
– Clinton left 9,000 troops without Congressional approval
• June 1993-Aidid forces killed 24 UN peacekeepers
• October 1993-19 rangers killed & 84 wounded
– US Soldiers drug through Mogadishu-felt like JFK & Bay of Pigs
• April 1994-Presidential Directive 25 -left job for UN
• Rwanda-900,000 dead in 89 days-3x rate of Holocaust
– No action taken…troops sent if after massacres, Clinton promised never
to let it happen again…
– True Focus was on Somalia not Rwanda
Somalia & Rwanda

3. • Operation Infinite Reach
– Gives CIA approval to use lethal force to get Bin Laden
• Sudan-August 20, 1998-US fired cruise missiles
– Target-Pharmaceutical Plant-contained nerve gas?
– Retaliation for attacks on US Embassies
• Afghanistan-Attacks on Taliban/Al-Qaeda training
bases w/Cruise Missiles
– Retaliation for attacks on US Embassies
– Wag the Dog??? Distraction for Impeachment???
• 3 Days after Grand Jury Testimony about Monica
Sudan + Afghanistan

4. • Operation Allied Force
• March 24-June 10, 1999-Gen. Wesley Clark
– Milosevic continues ethnic cleansing of Albanians
(Serbs)
– NATO air strikes (30,000), 2 shot down, recovered
– Did not want another Bosnia!
• Clinton Doctrine-US military intervention will be
used to stop Genocide (Feb. 26, 1999)
– Reaction to Rwanda & Somalia,
Kosovo War