mossad007
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- Dec 21, 2012
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Upto now am not aware of any war that TPDF went into it alone without dragging everybody into it. In Uganda, they we assisted by
- Museveni and his guerillas
- Tanzanian villagers
- JKT youths
- Police
- Soldiers from Angola
- Soldiers from Mozambique
And also note, they were lucky that Ugandans were already tired of Amin, otherwise they'd have come out in millions to protect and defend their flag. They simply allowed the shame of a foreign army urinating on their land because Amin had gotten to their throat with his dictatorship.
In their war against M23, they went in there to help Congo armed forces and fought alongside Congolese army, South Africans and Malawians. Also note, UN had managed to keep Rwanda off from helping those M23 kids. Above all, M23 comprised of so many child-fighters, they had recruited so many children. Finally, note that M23, their motivation was greed and money unlike the Alshabaabs who are driven religiously and were fighting without a care or worry of death.
I am responding to you since you seem a bit knowledgeable as opposed to most of noise makers around. The war against Alshabaab was a blend of conventional and asymmetrical, The American military went in the 1990s and took off immediately, U.N. peacekeeping forces made a hasty exit, Ethiopian ground forces took the capital and then left it, and Ugandan and Burundian soldiers fought tooth and nail for Mogadishu for years. It's only after KDF took the battle there and managed to obliterate those guys.
Fighting against such lunatics in Somalia streets, requires military precision and calculations, unlike having it easy in the jungle with M23 kids where you can just fire anything and everything into the forest hoping nothing survives in there.
Lawmaina78 lets talk intelligent talks...
1. We fought a War with Uganda alongside local Ugandans but don't forget Uganda had a Technical and financial Support from Libya and Western publications which intended to play a demoral psychological tactic on our troops and yet we won... u guys are fighting Al Shabaab whose only formidable arsenals they ever known are Kalashinikov and yet they are alone but KDF still relies on UPDF, USA, AMISOM, Ethiopia and Somalia army itself with support of Somali people with combination of tanks, helicopters, Mortars, Artilleries, Fighter jets, Navy vessels, and the likes yet the toll still takes on ur side na hakijaeleweka mpka leo.... ni mwaka mzima na miez naa sasa sisi tuliimaliza M23 kwa wiki 3 na Uganda nzima ikiwa na Support ya Libya kwa miez 10 tu...
U claim we won on Amini cz Ugandans had no support to him sasa nakuuliza mbona Al Shabaab wanapingwa na Serikali yao na Wananchi na hamjashinda..??
2. That M23 greedy was driven out money and they were scared... usinichekeshe wewe... we gave them an amnesty ultimatum of 31days to surrender or face fight and they choose fight if they were scared why did they choose fight..?? Or u have become their propaganda tool...?? Lawmaina78 dont fool us that Al shabaab are fighting with Kenya for religious reasons... Al shabaab fights KDF for political motives as they want ur troops out of Somalia. Yet if KDF is good enough there are no rooms for excuses its either u win a war against poor ill equipped and scrappy Al Shabaab militias or face what yo going through nw.
3. I agree fighting with Al Shabaab needs precision and calculatuions bcz sm of the battles are urbanly located... but Mr. mind u .... JWTZ set these standards 36 yrs ago while fighting in the outskirts of Jinja, Mbarara and Kampala which were more modern, complicated and comprised of dense population than the scrappy an Old Barawe with houses fool of mushrooms, un developed and less populated... what KDF is trying to perform today TPDF dd with flying colours 4 decades ago and with much rated opponent.
For ur information precision and calculations are part and parcel of any battlefield tactics unfortunately for Kenyans they know less... that if yo fighting in the jungle u only fire anywhere expecting to kill dozens and leave nothing surviving... with these breaking news information No wonder 4 ill equipped terrorists were able to hold armed forces of the whole nation for 4 days.
