Talk:United States intervention in Somalia

Article seems to cover broader topic than drone strikes in Somalia

Some of the listings in this article describe events which do not involve drone strikes. For example,


"The USS Chafee fired a dozen rounds and possibly one cruise missile on the coast of Bargal, in northern Somalia. The strikes were targeting 35 militants that had landed on the coast and had begun to fire on local forces. U.S. officials told The New York Times that U.S. operatives were on the ground, leading to the American warship firing in self-defense. 8-12 militants, including some foreign fighters were killed."

This list seems to be mostly derived from this list: Somalia: Reported US covert actions 2001-2016 which is desribed as a list of US covert actions in Somalia. Should this article be moved to US covert actions in Somalia? --Avg W (talk) 20:19, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bias

The bit about R2P is misleading and biased against intervention, and it cites an oped 107.15.47.241 (talk) 02:25, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in American military intervention in Somalia (2007–present)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of American military intervention in Somalia (2007–present)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "BBC":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:01, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Useful resource

In case someone has more time than I do, this Crisis Group report from 2023 lays out an impressive amount of journalistic research on the details, and especially politics, of the Trump and Biden era intervention, plus appendices summarizing the Bush and Obama eras. GeoEvan (talk) 06:58, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 July 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. If there is any objection within a reasonable time frame, please ask me to reopen the discussion; if I am not available, please ask at the technical requests page. (closed by non-admin page mover) Ivey (talk - contribs) 02:23, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

American military intervention in Somalia (2007–present) → US intervention in Somalia (2007–present)US intervention in Somalia (2007–present) – Per MOS:ACROTITLE and WP:TITLECON. Almost every article covering war on terror-related interventions by the United States use "US" in the title and don't further add "military" to it (eg. US intervention in the Syrian civil war, US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) and US intervention in Libya (2015–2019)). Hsnkn (talk) 01:48, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Should be renamed to United States intervention in Somalia (2007–present)

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The result of the move request was: moved. consensus for full name of the country to be used in the title, but no consensus for adding parenthetical disambiguation in title. (closed by non-admin page mover) ―Howard • 🌽33 23:05, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

US intervention in Somalia → United States intervention in Somalia (2007–present) – All Wikipedia entries regarding US foreign intervention use the full name "United States," not "US." Furthermore, this entry's title previously used "American," not "US." "US" can be an abbreviation for multiple different names, which does not conform to Wikipedia guidelines. In addition, the timing of the intervention was differentiated from the short-term interventions of the early 1990s. Manilano12 (talk) 12:02, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Hsnkn, I need your support. Manilano12 (talk) 01:56, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose disambiguation: I imagine that this far longer military intervention, which is months away from becoming the longest such intervention by the United States, is primary in long-term significance. However, this article and the Unified Task Force article seem to get similar numbers of pageviews, so the base title may have no primary topic in that regard. –Gluonz talk contribs 03:26, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Putting the strange canvassing aside, I support the full name of the United States. Regarding the disambiguation, I have no opinion currently. Gonnym (talk) 11:23, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I suppose I was @'ed because I suggested this move on the United States intervention in Syria req. Regardless, I support the move without any disambiguation as suggested by Gluonz. Hsnkn (talk) 14:28, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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