What obvious facts are u talking about? And who else shares your opinion that the Kenyan military is is laughable? The
Globalfirepower perhaps?
You Tanzanians are fond of pointing to the fiascos at both the Westgate and the Garissa University to back up your rather hollow argument about the Kenyan military, yet you chose to ignore its successes in Somalia that included ending the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean. In fact, this one operation
here even captivated the world and brought so much esteem to the KDF.
Incidentally, even the world's most powerful militaries such as the US and Russia have have also committed tactical blunders that have seen them meet with humiliating defeats. You surely must be aware of how the US overtures in Vietnam, Somalia and the Middle East left it with a bloody nose. Those misadventures however havent in anyway controverted the fact that hers is the most powerful militariy in the world!
You have stated that u were "shocked" when u saw battle tanks being employed at the Garissa University rescue operation, others Tanzanians here have expressed their chagrin that armored vehicles were being used during the Westgate crisis. Such statements clearly show how u Tanzanians are dummies when it comes to issues military operations that involve urban warfare and large-scale hostage rescue. Clearly, guerilla warfare is all that u know about, and admittedly, your military is accomplished in that.
In a hostage situation like that and with the hostage hostage takers armed to the teeth with with heavy weapons, tanks and armoured vehicles become handy for two reasons:
a)They provide help provide cover for the advancing rescue team from bullets and flying shrapnel from explosives
b)To knockdown walls to provide escape/entry ways to both the captives from wherever they may be hold up or enable the rescuers storm into the building.
Armoured vehicles and tanks were also present during the following similar hostage situations in Russia:
Moscow theater hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beslan school siege - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If u still strongly believe that those events in the Garissa and Westgate were spectacular failures that prove of Kenya's military ineptitude, please click on those links and read how the Russians fared in those hostage rescue operations. Then come back here and tell me if u now think the Russians are in fact even more bogus than Kenya.
Honestly, it would be interesting to see how the Tanzanian security agencies would handle a dicey situation like that.
Recall Amboni.
Our security intelligence agencies which you so disparage here have in fact foiled so many terror plots in Kenya. They have upped their ante since the Garissa atttack, that is why there has never been another grand-scale attack a la Garissa and Westgate for quite a long time now