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Title: | The Ethiopian Army: from victory to collapse, 1977-1991 |
Author: | Ayele, Fantahun |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 309 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Evanston, IL |
Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
ISBN: | 0810130114; 9780810130111 |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | armed forces military history 1970-1979 1980-1989 1990-1999 |
Abstract: | Contents: Chapter One: the army of the Ethiopian empire (1941-1974); Chapter Two: the army expands (1977-1991); Chapter Three: logistical and command problems (1977-1991); Chapter four: military intelligence (1977-1991); Chapter Five: fighting on two fronts (1977-1978); Chapter Six: fighting the northern rebels (1976-1991); Chapter Seven: how the revolution changed the army. The author, Fantahun Ayele, having had access to Ethiopian Ministry of Defense archives, studies the armed forces which repelled the Somali invasion of 1977 and suppressed internal uprisings, but collapsed in 1991 under the combined onslaught of armed insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray. Besides military operations, the book also discusses tactical areas such as training, equipment, intelligence, and logistics, as well as grand strategic choices such as ending the 1953 Ethio-American Mutual Defense Agreement and signing a treaty of military assistance with the Soviet Union. |