{"id":366,"date":"2014-02-27T20:15:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T01:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2014-04-28T06:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T10:13:33","slug":"countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JSOU Report: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/al_Shabaab_Feb_2014_small.pdf\">Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for U.S. Special Operations Forces<\/a> by Graham Turbiville, Josh Meservey, and James Forest<\/p>\n<p>In this report, the authors argue that al-Shabaab&#8217;s current prospects have probably never been so low. \u00c2\u00a0This work provides a meaningful context to al-Shabaab and the Somali milieu. \u00c2\u00a0Al Shabaab has been pushed from all of its major strongholds by a robust international effort, and its violent Salafism has alienated many Somalis. \u00c2\u00a0But it still has teeth. \u00c2\u00a0It continues to harass coalition forces, as well as ordinary Somalis, with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombings, and assassinations. \u00c2\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. \u00c2\u00a0This monograph is a useful resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the conflict in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/al_Shabaab_Feb_2014_small.pdf\">Click here to Download the full report in PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JSOU Report: Countering the al-Shabaab Insurgency in Somalia: Lessons for U.S. Special Operations Forces by Graham Turbiville, Josh Meservey, and James Forest In this report, the authors argue that al-Shabaab&#8217;s current prospects have probably never been so low. \u00c2\u00a0This work provides a meaningful context to al-Shabaab and the Somali milieu. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/countering-the-al-shabaab-insurgency-in-somalia\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}