Somalia’s Bleak Future as Terrorists Acquire Capability to Decommission the National Army (SNA) in Election Year

Event Central and Upper South Somalia remain economically and politically stagnant, largely because of the fluid security situation factored by a “Hybrid Warfare” (a combination asymmetrical, convectional formations, coercion, and irregular tactics) by the Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen movement (HSM). HSM strategy since 2010 has focused on fueling clan insurgency, conflation of...