grandpakhalif wrote:Can SSC handle this?
No, they can't, and they don't plan on taking Somaliland full-on. This is what they always do and I will tell you -- they will avoid confrontation near Buuhoodle and go straight to Sool just like the last hit-and-run attack. They will reach Lascanood and start a huge battle and Somaliland's main armies will be forced to intervene -- when this happens Puntland will automatically be drawn into the fight and will do all the fighting for SSC. That's what they are relying on, that's why their militia is so small and rag-tag, they are just hoping to build enough momentum to maintain small skirmishes to attract larger Somaliland militias to Sool so Puntland gets drawn in to do the heavy work. These guys don't even have heavy machine guns or artillery, its all just a supplementary force to aide the much larger Puntland army they hope will join the war. SSC would not exist if Puntland wasn't a Dulbahante-friendly state, you think these guys are dumb enough to pit a small sub-sub-sub-clan militia against a long-standing clan state? They are just waiting to see how Puntland will react to a retaliatory Somaliland force against them.