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Contents 1 WP:MilHist Assessment 2 Size of Ethiopean army 3 Size of the Ethiopean army 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Somaali-Tanks.jpg

[edit] WP:MilHist Assessment

A nice long article, with an infobox and a thorough and organized treatment of the subject. I like the flags in the infobox; they're a nice touch. The "Unknowns" under commanders seems odd - even if we don't know the names of the generals, I think it would be good to put the heads of state here; it's better than Unknown, and provides at least some continuity and understanding of events under a given person's rule. Otherwise, a fine article. Keep up the good work, and thank you in particular for giving such attention to what could otherwise be a rather obscure and esoteric subject. LordAmeth 17:22, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size of Ethiopean army

At the start of the war the numbers of the ethiopean army was 200,000 men. and a modern air force supplied by the US. All these facts are left out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.80.150.125 (talk • contribs)

This is a wiki so you're encouraged to fix any errors or fill in any holes. Please be sure to add n link to your source in the External links section or, if it's not a web resource, list it. Thanks, BanyanTree 03:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size of the Ethiopean army

by the start of the ogaden war in 1977 the ethiopean army comprised of 200,000. by the end of the war this force was suplemented by 400,000 poorly armed militias to fight the insergents in eritrea and the ogaden.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Lee888 (talk • contribs).

Cite a reliable source for it, then. The data we have up now is based on a 1982 article in a respected journal. The source you added was from someone's web page (albeit better than a blog or random geocities page, but not as reliable as the source being used right now). The article states there were 44,000 in the military in 1974, with 41,000 in the Army, while it had grown to 75,000 in 1980, "supplemented by a militia of relatively full-time soldiers totalling 150,000, or ten divisions." If you want to include this number for militias in 1980, that's fine, but we'd have to include Somali militias as well. I doubt all of them were on the Ogaden front, as well, given that this was the time of the EPLF and ELF's largest amount of territory controlled before the time immediately preceding the fall of the Derg and also during the Red and White Terrors. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 19:49, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Note: I've added more sources and gone in depth with all the numbers from a recent (2000) assessment. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 22:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

well what evidence do you have to support your claim that my source is unreliable. i can cite the us library of congress country profiles on somalia, on whose report my refrence is based on word for word except for the number of the armed forces. also if you had read my refrence on the ogaden war you would of seen near the end a statemen form the makers of the site on.war.com statitng how they update their information yearly to make it is as accurate as possible. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lee888 (talk • contribs) 20:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Somaali-Tanks.jpg

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BetacommandBot 21:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)