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Originally Posted by
Rex Brynen
Tactically, man-for-man, the Shabab are actually mind-numbingly incompetent, with rare exceptions. Their loss rates against the Ugandans often appear to be quite high, even within constrained ROE, and what casualties they have inflicted have generally been with IEDs or shoot-and-scoot mortar attacks not in direct firefights.
The TFG, sadly, are even more mind-numbingly incompetent.
That being said, it is hard to see how even a trebling of the AMISOM mission would fundamentally change the dynamics in Somalia. Outcomes are less a product of military force than shifting clan and political alliances.
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