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  title info:
    title: Counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Somalia
    sub title: assessing the campaign against Al Shaba'ab
  title info:
    title: Assessing the campaign against Al Shaba'ab
  name:
    name part: Jones, Seth G.
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Liepman, Andrew
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Chandler, Nathan
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
    role:
      role term: publisher,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 90 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This report analyzes the U.S. and allied campaign against the al Qa'ida-linked terrorist group al Shabaab in Somalia, examines what steps have been most successful against the group, and identifies potential recommendations. It concludes that, while al Shabaab was weakened between 2011 and 2016, the group could resurge if urgent steps are not taken to address the political, economic, and governance challenges at the heart of the conflict. This study finds that a tailored engagement strategy — which involved deploying a small number of U.S. special operations forces to conduct targeted strikes, provide intelligence, and build the capacity of local partner forces to conduct ground operations--was key in degrading al Shabaab. Still, progress in Somalia is reversible in the absence of continued and consistent pressure and political, economic, and social reforms. Today's terrorism and insurgency landscape defies easy solutions, with challenges from the Islamic State, al Qa'ida, and other groups across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa. While there has been a significant focus on how and why the U.S. and other Western governments have failed to degrade terrorists and insurgents in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and other countries, there has been far less attention on successful efforts to degrade groups. In Somalia, there has been limited progress. The challenge will be preventing a reversal"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Preface -- Box, Figures, and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Research Design -- Outline of the Report -- Chapter 2. The Evolution of al Shabaab: Phase One: Ideological and Historical Origins, 1960s-2005 -- Phase Two: Proto-Insurgency, 2005-2007 -- Phase Three: Rebirth and the Rise of the Islamists, 2007-2009 -- Phase Four: The Heyday of al Shabaab, 2009-2011 -- Phase Five: Retreat and Adaptation, 2011-2016 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. The Weakening of al Shabaab: Strategic Options -- The Decline of al Shabaab -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Recommendations -- APPENDIX: Data Collection Sources and Notes -- About the Authors -- References -- Index.
  note: Seth G. Jones, Andrew Liepman, Nathan Chandler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-80) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shabaab (Organization)
  subject:
    topic: Terrorism
    geographic: Somalia
    topic: Prevention
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: Evaluation
  subject:
    topic: Insurgency
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Islamic fundamentalism
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Religious militants
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: HV6433.S58 J66 2016
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1539-OSD
  identifier: 0833094815
  identifier: 9780833094810
  identifier: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1539.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1539.html
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160928
    record change date: 20170926145715.0
    record identifier: in00003722031
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng