ABSTRACT

Improving defence accountability and effectiveness is even more difficult when wars are actively underway. Southern Somalia bears considerable resemblance to previous counterinsurgency theatres in Afghanistan and Iraq, and thus considerations of defence assistance should be actively informed by those campaigns. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) intervention force has been critical to seizing much of the towns and terrain now freed from the Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents. But after 13 years AMISOM’s power is waning. There are vanishingly few instant and game-changing initiatives donors could take quickly to aid the build-up of Somali military forces either at the federal or regional levels. Yet decentralised Federal Member State governments represent important political forces in southern Somalia, and since 2012 efforts have been made to reinforce them. Perhaps the most immediate action that donors could take to aid the build-up of legitimate Somali military forces is to supply and work with, not just the Federal Government’s forces as has long been the case, but also the various military forces maintained by the Federal Member States.

摘要

当战争正在积极进行时，提高国防问责制和有效性就更加困难。索马里南部与以前在阿富汗和伊拉克的平叛战区非常相似，因此这些运动应积极考虑国防​​援助。非洲联盟驻索马里特派团（非索特派团）干预部队对于夺取现在从伊斯兰青年党叛乱分子手中解放出来的大部分城镇和地区至关重要。但 13 年后，非索特派团的力量正在减弱。捐助者可以迅速采取的即时和改变游戏规则的举措来帮助索马里在联邦或地区层面建立军队的举措非常之少。然而，分散的联邦成员国政府代表着索马里南部的重要政治力量，自 2012 年以来，已努力加强它们。也许捐助者可以采取的最直接的行动来帮助建立合法的索马里军队，不仅是向联邦政府提供和合作，而且与长期以来的情况一样，还包括联邦政府维持的各种军队。成员国。