Chad (merged thread)

[BayonetBrant]

tangential article, but likely worth the 10 minutes it'll take to read:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/w...ota-hilux.html

[student2010]

I have alot of secondary sources and I would love to have a good number of primary sources from Chadian participants, particularly toubou fighters.

[davidbfpo]

Elsewhere student2010 has posted unable to proceed with this subject and has a new RFI for a different theatre.

[davidbfpo]

A long article in FP 'Our man in Africa', namely Hissne Habr, at one time Chad's President and at the helm in the 'Toyota War' with Libya. It appears to place a lot of information, plus some new details in one place. I don't recall this happening, but a "week is a long time in politics":

Two AWACS surveillance planes, a contingent of F-15s, and tanker aircraft, along with some 600 U.S. support personnel, were deployed to Sudan to assist Habrs counteroffensive.

Link:http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/24/...FlashPoints%20[Manual]RSbestofprint

Note the focus is on Habre's human rights record and his pending prosecution in Senegal in 2015, after fleeing Chad twentytwo years ago.

[davidbfpo]

Three threads have been merged today; one with one post on open source satellite mapping, another a RFI on the 'Toyota War' and a more general thread. Hence the thread being re-titled.

Chad appears in many threads, usually as an African war and in recent times Chad has played a military role - often criticised by residents - in the CAR and Mali.

[Azor]

With a patrol plane as bait, fighter jets targeted radar sites

by TOM COOPER & ARNAUD DELALANDE

In 1983 and 1984, France intervened in the war between Chad and Libya. Paris’ Operation Manta established a “red line” along the 15th parallel — a blocking position meant to stop any advance by Libyan troops and Chadian rebels into southern Chad.

Chad was in the throes of a civil war that escalated when Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi backed Chadian rebel leader Goukouni Oueddei. Libyan troops and Chadian rebels occupied northern Chad. France was determined to protect what was left of Chad — its former colony — from Libyan influence.
France moved the red line north to the 16th parallel in January 1984 after Chadian forces shot down a French Jaguar fighter-bomber, killing its pilot. And on Feb. 16, 1986, the French air force launched an air raid targeting a Libyan-built airbase near the Ouadi-Doum oasis in northern Chad. Eleven Jaguars lobbing BAP-100 bombs totally destroyed the runway.

Thus began Operation Sparrowhawk — France’s big push to bring the Chadian civil war to a close. Air power played a central role....

See more here: https://warisboring.com/in-1987-the-...119#.s352hg3zs

[Azor]

With a patrol plane as bait, fighter jets targeted radar sites

by TOM COOPER & ARNAUD DELALANDE

In 1983 and 1984, France intervened in the war between Chad and Libya. Paris’ Operation Manta established a “red line” along the 15th parallel — a blocking position meant to stop any advance by Libyan troops and Chadian rebels into southern Chad.

Chad was in the throes of a civil war that escalated when Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi backed Chadian rebel leader Goukouni Oueddei. Libyan troops and Chadian rebels occupied northern Chad. France was determined to protect what was left of Chad — its former colony — from Libyan influence.
France moved the red line north to the 16th parallel in January 1984 after Chadian forces shot down a French Jaguar fighter-bomber, killing its pilot. And on Feb. 16, 1986, the French air force launched an air raid targeting a Libyan-built airbase near the Ouadi-Doum oasis in northern Chad. Eleven Jaguars lobbing BAP-100 bombs totally destroyed the runway.

Thus began Operation Sparrowhawk — France’s big push to bring the Chadian civil war to a close. Air power played a central role....

See more here: https://warisboring.com/in-1987-the-...119#.s352hg3zs

We hear a great deal about the potential for Russia or China to occupy a small piece of territory - say Narva or the Spratlys - and then establish an A2/AD zone over the occupied area to prevent recapture. Could France's Operations Manta and Sparrowhawk also be examples of this, given the role that defensive CAS and the deployment of SAMs played, as well as the limitation of the mission to the 15th/16th parallel?