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  1. Arabophone Sahel, Horn of Africa, East Africa

    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...

  2. White Djibouti, a realistic majority white state in Africa

    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...

  3. F-5 idea copied by Yugoslavia and Romania instead of the Jaguar idea?

    I wonder how light fighter with 2 Bristol orphues engines 5000lb dry thrust. A lot of potential

  4. Eritrean independence referendum in case of US invasion of Sudan in 1993.

    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.

  5. PC: Soviet aligned Ethiopian republic after a successfully 1960 coup

    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...

  6. PC: Soviet aligned Ethiopian republic after a successfully 1960 coup

    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...

  7. Somalian civil war in the early to mid 1980s

    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...

  8. WI: NATO attempts to prevent Russian annexation of Crimea

    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...

  9. PC: Siad Barre overthrown after the Ogaden War

    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...

  10. PC: Siad Barre overthrown after the Ogaden War

    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...

  11. PC: Siad Barre overthrown after the Ogaden War

    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...

  12. PC: Siad Barre overthrown after the Ogaden War

    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...

  13. KMT China Post war economy, foreign relations, society, and politics

    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.

  14. KMT China Post war economy, foreign relations, society, and politics

    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

  15. AHC/WI The Oromos become the most powerful ethnic group in Ethiopia?

    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...

  16. Aftermath of an enforced Treaty of Sevres

    What remains of turkey becomes the center of Islamic insurgency and the region will probably experience what you see in Iraq and Afghanistan today

  17. TL Proposal: Iran Saudi war

    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...

  18. The Great Jihad Succeds

    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.

  19. The Great Jihad Succeds

    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...

  20. Secret Policemen and Funky Bass Lines: A Somali Democratic Republic TL

    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...
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