There is no doubt that shabaab's grass root support comes primarily from the darood and D&M clans. We can't change that but we could sure utilize it to our own advantage.
Al-shabaabs not popularly with the hawiye clan and is blamed on various assassinations and suicide bombings that has killed countless hawiye victims.
What we should concentrate on is to continue to build up somalia's armed forces and intelligence mainly from hawiye recruits. Continue to strongly align ourselves with the United states, Britain and the European union.
We must alinate the other clans so that the international community can deal with us alone concerning Somali affairs.
Meaning that the TFG's budget can be spent in Mogadishu, banaadiir, Galmudug and hiiraan provinces.
We need to just focus in securing Mogadishu and to the strengthen ties with other hawiye regions such as Galmudug, Hiiraan and ASWJ controlled areas. We need to use shabaab to isolate our rivals who have deep seated hatred for us.
Inshallah the in coming offensive would only be aimed at securing Mogadishu and the Banadiir province as well as securing Beledweyne with ASWJ allies. Meaning darood and D&M dominated areas for the time being would remain under shabaab governance
If Bandiir in secured along with Mogadishu, why should we trouble ourselves with liberating kismayooo? A city and a region that is populated with the darood clan that is only allied with shabaab to harm hawiye interest because of their deep seated and rooted hatrted for us.
What we should do is let shabaab hold on to Kismayoo and the region as long as possible until, we in Mogadishu build up our own strong government institutions, such as the army and police to be able to assert authority on these animals the way we wish
Shabaab could be a great tool to weaken these people, cut their ties to the rest of the world. Be behind education and poorly organized to compete with us for influence on the international stage.
Inshallah puntland can be dealt in a different way, we could easily destroy them economically by ensuring the cheaper and more efficiently Mogadishu port is running effectively to service the needs of all south and central somalia.
As a the legitimate government of somalia we could put a travel ban on their leaders, harming their ties to the rest of the world.
We could also threaten any company that has dealings with them to pull out as they have no authority from somalia's government.
Puntland would eventually be so weakened that they would be forced to heavily rely on us, that is Mogadishu.
How to deal with somaliland? This one is far harder and much more complicated. To begin to challenge somaliland we would need to have a lot of luck and think very hard.
Militarily somaliland might even be stronger than us. The best option is to isolate somaliland in the authority of the government. Build a strong relationship with the african union to support us. Call on the international community to pressurize somaliland to have negotiations with us for talks on forming a United government
