It’s 2020 and I’m still trying to figure out how..

[babooshke]

Al-Shabab is still a fucking thing.

we have 25k man military + 25k men(amisom + USA/turkey) for a total of 50k

Al-Shabab is approximately 5k

How the f*ck have we not defeated them yet.

we have 10 times the force, we have access to air strikes, navy forces, air forces, drone strikes, just straight up superior equipment.
our fighters are trained. Al-Shabab is a bunch of civilians with ak-47s and a couple of rpgs

somalia is a fucking desert as well as we are a coastal country, they have absolutely nowhere to hide unless they can swim to India.

what are we doing For them to still be a thing?

 

[Marcus]

Incompetence

 

[Marshall D Abdi]

We cant recoginize them from they often hide with Civ n bomb

 

[Guure]

Corruption and

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[Yukon_Niner]

They can blend in, they're in every facet of society, they have some level of support both foreign and local.

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[kickz]

How is Taliban still a thing after facing off against USA for decades?

 

[pablo]

Funded by western governments if not look across the gulf, also I’ve been thinking this for awhile now which is that the Somali government is compromised to some extent like most in Africa and other areas of the world, otherwise no way civilians can randomly get AKs and get trained in your country, impossible. We also have a central bank and you know what that means.