Once upon a time, this Blogger was asked to appraise the fighting skills of Somalis. This Blogger believed, and believes them to be brave, fierce, capable of accepting the risk of death…..if they think they are going to win. Somalis are incapable of accepting casualties in the pursuit of accomplishing the impossible…..organized Somalis are incapable of being the 1 st Minnesota at Gettysburg, or the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment (the Glorious Glosters) at Hill 235, ("Hold on where you are"), or the Big Red One on Omaha Beach. Somalis are capable of war, incapable of sacrifice. Somalis have the courage of bandits, which means they never defeat the superior force; the Ethiopians defeated a superior Italian Army at the Battle of Adowa; the spear carrying Zulus defeated a modern British detachment at the Battle of Islawanda; the Sudanese under the Mahdi defeated a superior Egyptian Army under the British Colonel Hicks at the Battle of El Obeid. The S...