ABSTRACT Bagayoko, Hutchful, and Luckham correctly argue that the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official security institutions in Africa have been somewhat neglected, with a lack of much recent research. The Somali National Army (SNA) sits among these lacunae. Its formal structures can be used as a skeletal starting point and springboard to start to draw the network diagrams that chart informal linkages. This is why recent declassification decisions by U.S. intelligence bodies, coupled with period documents released to the UK National Archives, hold significance in helping us understand early hierarchical SNA arrangements. They show the steady build-up in size of the force, to 1987, to about the time the civil war began to fragment the state.

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一瞥处于巅峰时期的军队：关于 1960-80 年代索马里国民军的笔记

摘要 Bagayoko、Hutchful 和 Luckham 正确地认为，非洲官方安全机构的结构、特征和运作方式在某种程度上被忽视了，缺乏最近的研究。索马里国民军（SNA）就位于这些漏洞之中。它的正式结构可以用作骨架起点和跳板，开始绘制描绘非正式联系的网络图。这就是为什么美国情报机构最近的解密决定，加上向英国国家档案馆发布的期间文件，对帮助我们了解早期的 SNA 分层安排具有重要意义。它们显示了部队规模的稳定增长，直到 1987 年，大约在内战开始分裂国家的时候。