RadioalsoenabledtheGermanseniorcommanders to efficientlycontrolhugemobileforces, more thanever before in history, allowinglarge scalecooperationandeffectiveunityofcommand.
Dagne says highly de-centralized and mobile al-Shabaab forces threaten the Transitional Federal Government, and noted that African Union forces are constrained because they are not authorized to take offensive action.
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For wireless operators, the business apps could lead to more sales of devices, data plans and consulting deals to help companies manage their mobile work forces.
He also promoted the once-heretical idea of using mobile ground forces and a streamlined chain of command to "get inside the enemy's decision cycle" and hasten its collapse.
He has expanded the security forces by a third, to 270, 000, including a core of 80, 000 professional soldiers, some of them in mobile brigades and special forces.