Though both U.S. Army leaders and journalists have meticulously documented how the Battle of Mogadishu unfolded decades ago, Netflix is bringing something new to our memory of the incident.

The U.S. Army had a base in Somalia in 1992 where it assisted the United Nations with Operation Restore Hope, an effort to combat starvation. However, a Somalian warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid ...