How Somaliland is playing its geostrategic cards better than most
Much of its success is driven by a lack of dependence on anyone, but now it must balance war and great power jockeying in the region.
Michael Horton is a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation. He has written for numerous publications including: West Point’s CTC Sentinel, The National Interest, Jane’s Intelligence Review, The American Conservative, The Economist, and The Christian Science Monitor. Horton has completed in-depth field based studies on a range of subjects and issues related to security and development in the Middle East and Africa for the public and private sectors. He has briefed senior members of the U.S. National Security Council, the U.S. State Department, the British Foreign Ministry, British Ministry of Defense, as well as members of the British Parliament and U.S. Congress.
Much of its success is driven by a lack of dependence on anyone, but now it must balance war and great power jockeying in the region.
But Saudi Arabia and its helpmates can help speed up the inevitable and finally end this war.
Trump’s instincts to withdraw them from the country were right. Now the Pentagon seems to be reverting back to old, failed strategies.
The Saudi “Operation Decisive Storm” was anything but, and now the only way they can end this is through diplomacy.