Introduction
Irregular warfare can be defined as a form of warfare in which one of the combatants is composed of irregular military (Morgan, 2008). Irregular military in this case refers to a substandard form of military recruitment that does not comply with national and international military guidelines. This means that the people recruited in the army are not qualified in terms of age and education. Some of them are children who are trained in hostile environments and taught to adopt and become terrorists. This is the case for Somalia. Somalia is an eastern African country that borders Kenya to the west, Ethiopia to the north and the Indian Ocean to the east. For the past few decades, the country has gained international attention due to the challenges of warfare facing the country. It has become a breeding zone for the Al-Shabaab community that is responsible for a number of attacks in neighboring and overseas countries (Le Sage, 2010). Being opposed to the leadership of the government, this group is responsible for perpetrating a variety of irregular warfare activities including terrorism and pirating.
Irregular Warfare Activities
As identified above, the major threats of the Al-Shabaab military group include terrorism and pirating. Despite advancement in technology of the west, this group has been in the forefront in impacting the world with a sense of fear and horror. Whenever an attack occurs, people are anxious to know the group responsible for the attack. The Al-Shabaab is an extension of the most notorious group of terrorist in the Middle East known as the Al-Qaeda (Morgan, 2008). For a long time the challenges posed by this groups include man-slaughter and hostage attack situations with the recent being on Kenya’s biggest West-gate Mall Attack. This was one of the biggest attacks that the group has perpetrated in the recent past. According to the