Who in the chain of command is agreeing with the Security Council Resolution?
I don’t think anybody disagreed with the Security Council Resolution. The issue was whether US forces should be used to do an operation like this. Military officers make recommendations and advise the policy level leaders, and the policy level leaders make the decisions. I wasn’t in Washington, though my understanding is that eventually General Powell did go along with the need to send Task Force Ranger to Somalia. It’s pretty clear to me that if General Powell pounded his desk and said ‘No, no, no’ that they wouldn’t have come, but the decision was made in Washington that the Task Force Ranger would be deployed. But General Hoar, my boss, did not think it would be successful. Who did Task Force Ranger report to… what was the chain of command? So Task Force Ranger is deployed to Somalia, to Mogadishu. It is not under my tactical control nor is it under my operational control. Garrison was the Commander. He did not report to me, he reported directly to General Hoar as well. But he and
