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...
It is ASB for Saudis to fight a war without allies, especially the US.
On paper they are 250,000 plus men and equiped with the latest weapons and should be up there with ISreal, Turkey and Egypt in terms of power.
The reality is that they are woefully under trained and incompetent.
If houti...
Ok i concede most of the officers and politically aware soldiers would know that he was just a puppet/figurehead
with zero powerr, but the rank and file would fall for it.
yes nominally muslims, but not religious.
The Young Turk movement was a secular movement nothing to do with islam, and these 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Pashas
were non religous, while the rank and file of the troops were more or less religous,
so calling for a jihad would be seen as...
The Saudis really went all out with their promotion of their brand of islam, but it took root only in destabilized countries. Wahabism spread like wildfire in Somalia after 1990, in the 80's it represented a tiny minority of the population.
The same with Iraq's sunnis 20 years ago there were...
werent the 3 pashas all either agnostic or athiest and the sultan a mere puppet.
calling for a jihad i find is rather ironic and i am sure the population at that time wouldnt be impressed.
about oil exploration, genel is expected to start exploratory drilling in Somaliland by Nov this eyar or feb -march next year, siesmic will start in the next couple of months..
ive spoken to some people from the company and they are excited and confident that they will find commercial quantities.