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The Ethiopian Army: From Victory to Collapse, 1977-1991
Fantahun Ayele
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Description for The Ethiopian Army: From Victory to Collapse, 1977-1991
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; 3JJ; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military governmentthat created one of the largest and best-equipped armies in Africa. In his panoramic study of the Ethiopian army, Fantahun Ayele draws upon his unprecedented access to Ethiopian Ministry of Defense archives to study the institution that was able to repel the Somali invasion of 1977 and suppress internal uprisings, but collapsed in 1991 under the combined onslaught of armed insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray. Besides military operations, The Ethiopian Army discusses tactical areas ... Read more
The Ethiopian popular revolution of 1974 ended a monarchy that claimed descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and brought to power a military governmentthat created one of the largest and best-equipped armies in Africa. In his panoramic study of the Ethiopian army, Fantahun Ayele draws upon his unprecedented access to Ethiopian Ministry of Defense archives to study the institution that was able to repel the Somali invasion of 1977 and suppress internal uprisings, but collapsed in 1991 under the combined onslaught of armed insurgencies in Eritrea and Tigray. Besides military operations, The Ethiopian Army discusses tactical areas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130111
SKU
V9780810130111
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About Fantahun Ayele
Fantahun Ayele is an assistant professor of history at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. He was the second recipient of the Global Encounters postdoctoral appointment in African Studies at Northwestern University, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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