Mogadishu line

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  1. The point at which foreign involvement in a conflict shifts from peacekeeping or diplomacy to combat operations.
    — For long before the United States was forced to confront the horror of its dead servicemen being dragged naked through the dusty streets of Mogadishu, ‘the crossing of the Mogadishu line’ came to be a test of the international community's resolve in dealing with intractable violence of the post-Cold War era.

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the Mogadishu line canonical

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In reference to the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993.
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