Somalia defeat in 1978 and Siad Barre

[RedSea]

Cara good point.

 

Russians were not convinced that Ethiopians alone plus the S.Yemenis were good enough in breaking the somalis. Thus sent more help. You gotta be a darn good army to be jumped on like that.

 

 

Cuba aka "somalia1",

 

The somali army were at their worst shape when the intervention came.

[somalia1]

An article about the war.

 

http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/oscar/******1976.ht m

[somalia1]

An interesting article about the war and the somali future.

 

http://www.globalaffairs.es/Noticia-pdf-334.html

[somalia1]

The War in 1977

 

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA264860& Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

 

Soviet

support enabled Ethiopia to defeat Somali aggression and sent

half a million refugees and guerrillas back across the Somalia

border, many carrying modern weapons. 3

The ****** defeat unleashed serious domestic discontent

against Siad Barre, who turned to the United States for help.

The U.S.A. supported him until 1990,

[somalia1]

An article:

 

http://dare.uva.nl/document/65588

[somalia1]

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?i dx=7206

 

During the ****** War the Soviet Union (once an ally of Somalia) and Cuba helped Ethiopia to defeat Somalia because at one point Ethiopia could only control 10% of Eastern Ethiopia in the ****** region

[somalia1]

There are those who contend that the 1977/78 war was disastrous for Somalia . I agree that Siad Barre's government fell short of attaining its objective at monumental costs. Some would say it was simply a costly misadventure which led to Somalia 's own destruction. I beg to differ. Whilst we were succeeding at the battle front we were failing dismally at the diplomatic front, and the forces which were arrayed against us and drove us out of the territory we liberated were but the manifestation of a tragic diplomatic failure. Our policymakers were soldiers who thought that in war only military hardware and military thinking mattered. But, surprisingly, that war brought Ethiopians and Somalis closer to each other

http://wardheernews.com/articles/July/7_Somalia%20 &%20Ethiopia_Geeldoon.htm

 

A video about the war in 1977.

 

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=bWTuvwgWmow

[somalia1]

I want to buy books about the Ethio-Somali war in 1978.

 

Perhaps someone could help me.

[cubano]

 

 

I want to know why Somalia lost the war in 1977?

 

 

[Holac]

Cuban, I once listened to an interview by Abdulahi Yusuf, the late President. I believe he said at the time the army we demoralized. Some of the top generals were assassinated by Siyad Barre for fear of them turning against him after the war.

[gooni]

Cabana

 

The best way to get good information is to go Ethiopia and search some old regime commander

Sure you will find lost wallet

 

[galbeedi]

IL Cubano, do you know your name sake Cuba was on the other side of the war.

 

The most important factor for the defeat ( withdrawal ) of Somali army was political. One ward that everyone agreed was the main cause is " Somali Irridentism ) " Back then the world was divided in two camps. The western capitalist block and the communist . In 1975 both Somalia and Ethiopia were part of the eastern block. In the real world, there is no way two countries belonging to the same camp to go to war.

 

Siyaad Barre refused to acknowledge this simple fact. When Fidel Castro met him, before the start of the war in 1977, he did not even accepted that a communist revolution replaced the long ruling king.

 

In one of the secret documents released by former east Germany reveal that Saudi Arabia and others were pulling Somalia from the communist block.

 

It was a right war executed a wrong time. Also as Holac said, a lot of good generals were lost due to that war for political reasons.