Somalis are to put it simply arrogant and any cultural adaptation is done grudgingly.
Except for Islam took they took to it like fish to water.
Allot of arabs were somalized and integrated into somali clan structure.
My own ancestry traces the forefather of my clan to najaf in Iraq around...
You are correct the real question is should France do this not CAN France do this.
In otl France removed 1/3 of the somali clans that were resistant to them and deported them to British Somaliland and replaced them with their cousins and rivals a related clan living in somalialnd by bribing its...
I believe the EPLF were the main muscle of the rebel movement and pulled all the rest along with them to fell the derg.
In 1993 melez zenewi has no power to do anything about it when faced with overwhelming Eritrean military superiority.
Gorbachev pulled the plug on millitart aid in 1985 after falling out with the Derg regime.
The Ethiopian armed forces deteriorated so fast that in 1988 the eplf inflicted one if histories decisive battles on the Ethiopians .
Luring 2 of its best divisions and destroying them in an ambush.
Within...
It means a western supported Somalia.
Somalia was independent in 1960.
They were offered funding for a 5000 man very small but mechanized from the west while Somalia was aiming for 20,000
In 1961 Somali signed an agreement with the Soviets for 15,000 sized army while it was still a democratic...
Overextension will not be as bad as you would expect, you have the remember the Somali army did not just walk in and invade .
For years they were arming and training the local population into the western Somali liberation front. It started with embedding Somali officers into the insurgency to...
People are forgetting that some countries are truly sovereign and have interests they pursue just like the west/ NATO etc.
Crimea in this case is seen by the Russians as essential and basically Russian soil.
Worth going all the way to nukes.
In contrast hypothetically if Hillary. Clinton won...
The 1973-74 drought actually strengthened the siad regime because he used the army to move tens of thousands of people and saved them from famine. It was worse than the 1992-93 drought but very frw died from famine, while the latter killed over 300,000 people and started UN intervention.
From...
The Ethiopians held on in diredawa and Harar due to the Airforce, but the SNA was still attacking. I forgot to account for wslf troops which were more than 5000 guerillas so the numbers might not have been that disproportionate.
I suspect there were more Ethiopian forces than you say because by...
The 1978 coup was mainly majerteen and would have led to disintegration and civil war earlier, 1978 was too late the siad givergover antagonized the clans too much and they were already organizing clandestinely.
The only way a coup would succeds would be before the Ogaden war preferably closer...
In Otl the Somali army did pretty well capturing 80% of the Ogaden within the first first few weeks despite being outnumbered in every battle, they did however have a superiority in armour and mechanized infantry and also motorized troops.
This was despite crippling interference and...
Yes people often forget that the export oriented industrialization of East Asia was due to circumstances unique to the cold war and willingness of the US to open it's markets and dollar hegemony.
If you have a large enough population like Iran you can pull of ISI without exports.
ISI is actually very useful in the early stages of industrlization. Taiwan and South Korea both underwent ISI in 50s and 60s.
I believe taiwan went all out export oriented after 1965.
Isi builds the base infrastructure to build your exports on
Today Oromos are about 60% Muslim,
A good percentage of the Amhara ethnicity is actually assimilated Oromos.
And on the other side a good percentage of the Oromos in the south are various ethnicities assimilated into Oromo from 1560's onwards .
There are already Somali groups half way...