Top military bosses have failed soldiers

Exactly one year and 14 days ago, the country was plunged into mourning after terrorists breached the defence of our soldiers in El Adde, Somalia, and massacred at least 173 servicemen and officers. This was the worst attack on Kenyan military since independence and the country rightly rallied behind our gallant heroes because their loss was our loss, for we are all together in this war.

Implicit in this support was the tacit hope that the military top brass would learn from the massacre and come up with a secure way of crushing the threat posed by terrorists without endangering the lives of our soldiers. Indeed, many hoped that the blood of the young men killed in the line of duty, many of them barely into their mid-20s, would not be in vain. Then another massacre happened in Kolbiyow this Friday and it became apparent that we have been tilting at windmills.