Can Uganda translate its Military Prowess to the Economic Arena?

No doubt Uganda has a a major military war in the neighboring countries and presently has a major war in Somalia as it did in Sudan. Economic and political pundits believe that while Uganda has contributed to fixing the political and military challenges in its neighboring countries, it has lost out to Kenya in its economic front. In Rwanda, its Kenya's companies that sell most. A very visible case is that of Airline case. Kenya Airways is making a kill in that. In Sudan, the Kenya companies including banks have established shop. You may recall Garang died in Ugandan helicopter, we will come back to this letter. In Somalia, despite Kenya sharing a border with Somalia, the Ugandans took the initiative to contribute to peace keeping in Mogadishu. As the Somalia rebels are weakened, the Kenya military enters the fry. When the war settles down, it will be the Kenyan businesses that will take the day. Uganda recently lost three helicopters and 7 soldiers in Kenya on their way to Somalia. This brings me to the reason for this posting. In an article that appeared in Red Pepper of August 22, 2012 entitled "CHOPPER CRUSH; Kenyans mock Ugandans" which was adopted from Kenya's daily nation. The authors are not very kind to Ugandans. First of all the author says losing three (3) helicopters is neither a misfortune nor carelessness, he called it incompetence. 2) He talks about the mode of communication the pilots are using, if this is true, of course that was wrong. But most important, he says "Uganda is supposed to lead the area of bombardment of Kismayo while Kenya handles the naval assault. Kenyan ground forces are depending on Ugandan control of air. I have serious misgivings about Uganda's ability to do this....but i do not doubt their resolve" Of course Kenya with its economic stability and history probably has a better air-force the author may have written it in that context. But having bashed Uganda so much, in such circumstances, i thought he would have had some kind words Uganda especially where it involves death of people. The lessons are we have the military edge in terms of resolve to achieve as pointed out by this author. Our neighbors laugh their way to the banks after we have opened up the political space in our neighboring countries. Can this resolve be turned into an economic one?