World Defense Review columnist
Smoldering in Somalia
More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an international contingent to go into the territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic to keep a nonexistent peace and nearly two months after the armed forces of neighboring Ethiopia drove off the Islamist forces of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) which had seized control of large parts of the country, the first elements of the African Union (AU) peacekeepers began arriving in the war-ravaged land this past week