How does the film Black Hawk Down demonstrate leadership and culture?
Culture is deomstrated in two primary ways – The hard-scrabble, defiant resistance of Somali tribal warlords and their urban members to the overwhelming military (technological) superiority of the American Task Force Ranger, on the one hand. And on the other, the US Military culture of elite units, heavy reliance upon technology, and the high value placed on the lives of military members (see the efforts to rescue the various cut-off groups and efforts to secure the release of pilot Durant). Leadership is deomstrated in many cases, throughout. The leadership of Adid and his Lieutenants enabled the Somalis to respond rapidly and effectively to the raid mounted by Task Force Ranger, and on the other hand, the leadership of numerous Rangers and Delta Operators like Randy Shughart and Sergeant Evans in adapting to the rapidly changing, rapidly deteriorating situation, and their determination to do what was right, by their culture’s lights, regardless of the risk involved. I think, from Tas
