{"id":179,"date":"2014-02-28T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/?p=179"},"modified":"2014-02-28T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:28:16","slug":"countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/2014\/02\/28\/countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Report: <strong>Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for the U.S. Special Operations Forces<\/strong> by Graham Turbiville, Josh Meservey, and<strong> James Forest <\/strong>(<em>Senior Fellow, CTSS<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>February 2014<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In this report, the authors argue that al-Shabaab\u2019s current prospects have probably never been so low. \u00a0This work provides a meaningful context to al-Shabaab and the Somali milieu. \u00a0Al Shabaab has been pushed from all of its major strongholds by a robust international effort, and its violent Salafism has alienated many Somalis. \u00a0But it still has teeth. \u00a0It continues to harass coalition forces, as well as ordinary Somalis, with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings, and assassinations. \u00a0Its tactics reflect a strategic decision made by its leadership to fight a guerrilla war, a familiar role for a group that thrived by waging an anti-Ethiopian insurgency in the emid-2000s. \u00a0This monograph is a useful resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the conflict in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/02\/2014-Al-Shabaab_PDF1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download a complete copy of this report as a PDF file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Report: Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for the U.S. Special Operations Forces by Graham Turbiville, Josh Meservey, and James Forest (Senior Fellow, CTSS) February 2014 In this report, the authors argue that al-Shabaab\u2019s current prospects have probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/2014\/02\/28\/countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/ctss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}