The kacaan regime was not to bad even though democracy was abolished and the Parliament, but democracy does not necessarily mean prosperity the First 10 years of the Somali democratic republic were actually pretty impressive. The Somali latin script was adopted ,literacy in the Somali republic increased. The Somali republic was highly self reliant compared to other nations.The economy was booming even though we were a socialist state we were thriving in agriculture in livestock trade small scale industrialization in the country, in education we were making some good progress to. And the Somalis felt proud of their achievement in a short period of time. Than the regime made some terrible miscalculated mistake invaded Ethiopia liberating the Somali territories under the Ethiopian Empire, Somalia came out a loser out of the war even though they made some quick victories in the battlefield Somalia was superior to Ethiopia militarily Somalia had a more superior air force, highly trained. We received one of the best military equipments from the soviets the Ethiopians to. But Somalis were winning because the land that was being fought for belonged to the Somalis this helped to.
The Somalis in Somali galbeed at that time welcomed the Somali troops in their homes sheltered them the wounded one were treated. My uncle my daddy's younger brother fought in that war. And he said the moral of the people was high so we won, and drove the Ethiopians out real fast.Any way the war eventually we lost it because of that war economically we became handicapped the self reliant somalia once proud, received hand outs from the united states. People became frustrated with the regime, the regime started conscripting new military officers particularly from certain clans, and assassinated former military officers. The Somali society started mistrusting each other and the regime, the regime started playing clans against each other, in order remain in power the ancient old divide and conquer. The regime became corrupted the army became so corrupted that it was destine to collapse from with in. And that eventually happened in Somalia many fleed the country others tried to stay as the end was near.
And the regime asked for more aid and military aid from the united states rebel groups were formed to overthrow the regime. But the most imperative point was that the Somali nationalism was always based on expansion greater Somali, Somaliweyn. It was easily undermined by the Somali clan nationalists. Because Somali nationalism was not based on a shared historic events for centuries, the clan nationalists overwhelmed the entire country with the many Somali rebel movements all starting with Somali. Somali became synonymous with an ethnic identity and a language but not the nation per say. And they failed to conduct a national agenda post Maxammad afweynes regime.
