on 15, 2016, Kenya experienced its largest ever military defeat when al-Shabaab fighters attacked and overran an AMISOM forward operating base garrisoned by KDF troops from the 9th Rifle Battalion at El Adde in Somalia.
"The president needs to define what the end-state in Somalia looks like. Insisting that we shall stay the course may sound like an admirable policy; in practice, it is unsustainable given growing domestic insecurity." https://africanarguments.org/2014/06/to-prevent-more-mpeketonis-kenya-must-define-somalia-exit-plan-by-abdullahi-boru-halakhe/
To prevent more Mpeketonis Kenya must define Somalia exit plan – By Abdullahi Boru Halakhe |...

Since Kenya intervened in Somalia in October 2011, insecurity has spiraled out of control, with attacks (largely targeting Kenyans) becoming commonplace occurrences in Nairobi, the coast, and parts...

https://africanarguments.org/2014/06/to-prevent-more-mpeketonis-kenya-must-define-somalia-exit-plan-by-abdullahi-boru-halakhe/
"If the people in Kismayo want a devolved authority that is nominally answerable to Mogadishu, but autonomous at the same time, then that discussion should be left to the Somalis themselves" https://africanarguments.org/2013/09/kenya-needs-a-comprehensive-exit-plan-in-somalia-by-abdullahi-boru-halakhe/
Kenya needs a comprehensive exit plan in Somalia – By Abdullahi Boru Halakhe | African Arguments

Kenya’s intervention in Somalia in October 2011 came as a surprise to many Horn of Africa observers. According to the Kenyan government, the raison d’íªtre for intervening was to pursue Al Shabaab...

https://africanarguments.org/2013/09/kenya-needs-a-comprehensive-exit-plan-in-somalia-by-abdullahi-boru-halakhe/
Domestically, Kenya's Somalia intervention torpedoed the nascent police reform. http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/kenya-somalis-refugeecounterterrorismalshababsomalia.html
OPINION: The precarious fate of Kenyan-Somalis

Kenya’s scapegoating of Somalis is a worrisome case of ethnic profiling

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/kenya-somalis-refugeecounterterrorismalshababsomalia.html
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/kenya-is-losing-the-plot-against-al-shabab.html
OPINION: Kenya is losing the plot against Al-Shabab

Security sector corruption and the lack of an exit plan from Somalia have made Kenya a vulnerable target

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/kenya-is-losing-the-plot-against-al-shabab.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/4/is-kenyas-heavy-handed-response-to-security-threats-justifiable
Is Kenya’s heavy-handed response to security threats justifiable?

Extrajudicial killings, rampant corruption and widespread profiling taint Kenya’s police forces.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/4/is-kenyas-heavy-handed-response-to-security-threats-justifiable
Kenya has also lost in regional diplomacy since/because of Somalia intervention. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/1/29/somalia-kenyas-foreign-policy-failure
Somalia: Kenya’s foreign policy failure

Major foreign policy mistakes Kenya has made threaten to unravel its relations with Somalia and endanger its security.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/1/29/somalia-kenyas-foreign-policy-failure
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