Shabaab has no popular support and cannot sustain a jabhad, you cannot walk among the locals with AK 47.Based wrote:If they're not prepared to take massive casualties and have a limited capacity to wage a sustainable campaign, what was the point of invading Somalia?
This sitzkrieg is going to end with an embarrassing withdrawal and an emboldened Shabaab that has successively repulsed two invasions.
the locals have resentments.
As for Shabaab they used to scare the locals with their power at one time they amassed 140 technicals in Afmadow just to flush out Axmed Madoobes 100+ men.