The Strategies of Terrorism Along the Kenya Somalia Border: A Guide for CT Ops.

Despite the salience of terrorism in East Africa today, the Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia, Harakat Shabaab Mujahideen has not achieved its objective in over a decade now. The group engages in terrorism because it frequently delivers desired responses (largely short-term and easily reversed by counter terrorism operators). However, there is no empirical evidence that these...