Discuss Somalia: UK weighs up air strikes against rebels in Current Affairs, News and Analysis on The Army Rumour Service; Do you think that there would be any potential for combating Islam in the Horn of Africa if we recognised the independence of Somaliland? The country has been de-facto independent for a couple of decades ...
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Do you think that there would be any potential for combating Islam in the Horn of Africa if we recognised the independence of Somaliland? The country has been de-facto independent for a couple of decades already since wider Somalia started falling apart, and as far as I understand it the country has puttered along quite happily, free of the sectarian trauma afflicting the remainder of the region. If we led the way in recognising their statehood, which could be a simple smooth formalisation, we could establish a friendly base in the region with a supportive populace, whose local knowledge could aid us in suppressing enemy in neighbouring Puntland and beyond. Furthermore, by rebuilding Commonwealth ties with Somaliland we might be able to accomplish the rare feat of bringing a Muslim country into a Western orbit.
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- 14-05-2012, 03:08 #92
Not a good idea IMHO. Western adventures in that forsaken land do not end well.
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- 14-05-2012, 03:13 #93Senior Member
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^ ^ Hence air strikes.
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- 14-05-2012, 03:19 #94So what happens when an aircrew punches out there? Also, the efficacy of air strikes without coordinated ground action is historically unsuccessful, especially against a dispersed and unsophisticated enemy without the lucrative air targets of C3 nodes and troop concentrations. There is also the apparent mission-stopper of modern day interventions--the risk of noncombatant casualties.
Originally Posted by batfink5537 
again, just MHO, there is nothing there worth fighting over at this point in that prehistoric "nation.""A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
- 14-05-2012, 03:37 #95Senior Member
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Yes very true. If we do anything i cant see anything more than air strikes, & SF personell recovery teams on standby incase air crew end up on the ground.
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- 14-05-2012, 03:46 #96On occasion, even THEM may not recover the crew before the locals get them. I am not saying it can't be done but I fail to see a sufficient upside for the risk. Originally Posted by batfink5537 "A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
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Maybe I am naive, but does it not seem rather a fast and large scale upping of the odds from one of from issuing the RN with gumshields so they can't use their teeth, to bombing the feck out of a country?
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I fear you are too late, with all the press mumblings coming out from the FCO. Originally Posted by jumpinjarhead
Perhaps the PM has decided to have his on little "Sierra Leone" type mission in Africa?
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he can't be that stupid Originally Posted by Boumer "I think i am becoming a god."
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But launching air strikes on Libya was sooooo exciting! Originally Posted by Draft Dodger
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if we did.
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