Deployment of three Turkish T129 helicopter gunships to Mogadishu considerably boosts Somali military hearth energy.
Analysts, nevertheless, divided on whether or not it will possibly considerably change fight dynamics.
Elevated airstrikes will doubtless drive AS to maneuver away from mechanised, fastened/static troop focus to extremely cellular and dispersed small warfare techniques.
It’s virtually sure AS will transfer into built-up city areas and civilian populations within the face of escalated aerial strikes. Put in a different way, elevated aerial strikes might quicken the tempo of AS ‘consolidation’ and take over of cities and cities.