The N.F.D. Somalis’ passive resistance strategy was likely self-defeating

Evidence

But it might well have been more profitable for the N.F.D. Somalis to have adopted more violently intransigent tactics, or alternatively, to have participated wholeheartedly in the new constitutional arrangements with the aim of using the new Region’s Territorial Assembly as a mouthpiece from which to press their secessionist aims in a manner which the British government might have found it possible to accede to more readily. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 482

Categorization

• QUESTION: Lewis speculates counterfactually about whether violent intransigence would have worked better - worth chasing how later events bear this out.
• XREF: connects to: Somali clan maneuvering between rival empires weakened the Somali position; The Ogaden defeat’s divisive forces corroded Somalia’s political stability; Internal clan divisions fatally undermined the Western Somali liberation struggle (+3 more)

Related

• Somali clans playing imperial rivals off each other weakened their position (similarity 0.80)
• Somalis’ clan disunity prevented unified opposition to foreign rule (similarity 0.80)
• The Ogaden defeat’s divisive forces corroded Somalia’s political stability (similarity 0.79)
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics (similarity 0.79)
• Somali clan maneuvering between rival empires weakened the Somali position (similarity 0.79)
• The Somali clan system made Ogaden clans prey to Italian and Ethiopian competition (similarity 0.79)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.79)
• Siyad’s survivalist rule reinforced clan segmentation to Ethiopia’s advantage (similarity 0.79)
• Somali factions used the terror threat to denounce each other rather than unite (similarity 0.78)
• The partition of Somaliland’s territories permanently foreclosed a unified path to independence (similarity 0.78)
• Internal clan divisions fatally undermined the Western Somali liberation struggle (similarity 0.78)
• Ogadenis and Mogadishu each tried to manipulate the other (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Somali clan maneuvering between rival empires weakened the Somali position #expands (0.70)
• Somali clans playing imperial rivals off each other weakened their position #expands (0.70) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 181
• Somalis’ clan disunity prevented unified opposition to foreign rule #expands (0.70)
• The Ogaden defeat’s divisive forces corroded Somalia’s political stability #expands (0.60)
• Internal clan divisions fatally undermined the Western Somali liberation struggle #expands (0.60)