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Li Mo seemed to be distracted at the National Defense Committee meeting, but in fact he was not. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info what he will consider is also Ethiopia's provocation of the Somali army by creating tension on the border map.

Ethiopia and Somalia have always been committed to maintaining peace in Somalia, mediating disputes between various armed warlords in Somalia, and even sending troops to assist the Somali interim government axe to fight against local armed warlords on many occasions. Although these are all things from the previous life, Li Mo also knows something.

In this life, because of the appearance of Li Mo, after the formation of the Somali Provisional Political Axe, it is not as nominal as in the previous life, and even the capital Mogadishu is not fully controlled, so it is common for the political axe to be out of the gate. In this life, because of the appearance of Li Mo, he actively united with those people with lofty ideals who were willing to give up their ambitions and desires for the reunification of Somalia, and did not hesitate to crack down on those armed warlords who were controlled by careerists and conspirators, severely suppressed the 'Al-Shabaab', the radical organization that did the most harm to Somalia in the previous life, smashed its forces inside Somalia, and forced the 'Al-Shabaab', which was secretly controlled by Comrade bin Laden, to shift its position, eliminating the biggest threat to the peaceful reunification of Somalia.

Without internal contradictions, Ethiopia's 'contribution' to the peaceful reunification of Somalia would be much smaller, but because of some of the things it did for Somalia before Li Mo took control of Somalia, the Somali political axe was still very grateful, and the cooperation between the two sides in agriculture, tourism and other aspects was also very pleasant, and because Ethiopia had no access to the sea, many goods trade also passed through Somaliland, and the Somali political axe tried not to set up obstacles to Ethiopia's foreign trade.

It can be said that the two sides did not have too many contradictions, except for territorial disputes in the warlord era, and even the cooperative relationship was very close.

Somalia needs a peaceful and stable internal and external environment to develop its economy, and Ethiopia also needs a stable surrounding environment to carry out economic and social reforms and implement the Second Five-Year Plan. After nearly three decades in power, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles? Under Zenawi's leadership, Ethiopia is also actively emerging from poverty.

At this time, as long as it is not a bad brain, or a huge demand for interests, with Meles's control and control of Ethiopia, he will never do such a thing to create border friction.

It is true that Ethiopia's military strength is much stronger than Kenya's, with 210,000 troops in the country, including 200,000 in the army and 10,000 in the air force, and the annual military expenditure is about 400 million US dollars, which is also more for an African country. And because Ethiopia has had many military coups and civil wars and external border conflicts in the past few decades, the army is also somewhat combative. Somalia was able to defeat Kenya and Somaliland, in addition to being more advanced in weapons than the two countries and regions, occupying a favorable geographical position and people is also an important factor, and the size of the Somali army is also larger than that of the two countries and regions. But compared to Ethiopia, the size of the army is far less, only one-third of it.

After the 2000 comprehensive peace in the Ethiopia-Eritrea border conflict, Ethiopia has begun to carry out disarmament, converting part of its regular army into security forces and reserves; After the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia gradually moved closer to the West, and received a large amount of aid from Western countries every year, and even within the Egyptian army, there were some American instructors who were responsible for training for the Ethiopian army.

In terms of weaponry, Ethiopia basically relies on Soviet-made weapons, with 250 T-54/55 tanks, 100 T-62 tanks, 50 T-72 tanks, 300 armored vehicles, and 32 tank battalions, which are the most important mechanized units of the regular army. 60 helicopters of all kinds, including Mi-4, Mi-14, Mi-17, Mi-24 and Cougar; It has 21 MiG-21 fighters, 2718 Su-2718, 32 MiG-23F attack aircraft, 4 Su-25 attack aircraft, and several old transport aircraft.

Most of these weapons and equipment have been in service for a long time, and they were basically purchased in the seventies and eighties and nineties in the world, because of Ethiopia's economic strength, the maintenance of many technical weapons is also insufficient, and according to the analysis of the Somali intelligence department, Ethiopia's military equipment can be used less than 60 percent except for some of the more advanced weapons purchased in the nineties.

Even so, Ethiopia's military strength should not be underestimated, at least because it has a large base, and because it has not experienced more than a decade of civil strife like Somalia, it has caused less damage to infrastructure and economy, and its comprehensive potential is very strong.

And because of the high mountains in Ethiopia, the Great Rift Valley runs through the whole territory, and the terrain is very dangerous, which belongs to the kind of place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although in modern warfare, the checkpoints that cannot be opened by thousands of people no longer have a practical effect, for a mountainous country, resisting foreign aggression has an inherent advantage over those coastal plain countries. Except for parts of the northeast and southwest, Somalia is almost flat, and because it is a thorough coastal country with no strategic depth, the war with Ethiopia is in a disadvantageous position.

A landlocked country in the mountains, it is indeed a country where the enemy feels a headache. Unless, like the United States, it uses ammunition to open the way at any cost, no matter what line of defense you have, first hit down with a missile, and then the roaring fighter attack planes and bombers drop a guided bomb or a ground-penetrating bomb, and then everything will be blown up and crippled for you. The United States may be able to afford the attrition of war, but Somalia certainly cannot afford it.

"I think we can do what Minister Palermo said, let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs say it first, and if it doesn't work, I think the General Staff and the Somaliland Military Region can first formulate a small-scale counterattack operation plan. If Ethiopia cannot be diplomatically persuaded to stop such unilateral military provocations, it must give the other side a little color militarily. However, the military plan of action should be small rather than large, fast rather than slow, and it is necessary to beat the other side hard and honestly in one go, so that some people can see our determination to defend the territorial and sovereign integrity of the country and the interests of the people, and let them see that Somalia is no longer the chaotic country it used to be, and that under the leadership of a strong political axe, the Somali political axe and army are capable of resisting any aggressors and peepers. ”

When the committee members who represented the two opinions of salute before soldier and preemptive strike were about the same, Li Mo spoke at the right time.

Final word! Li Mo's words were tantamount to agreeing with Palermo's opinion, but he also proposed to fight back harshly by military means.

This method synthesized the opinions of both sides, and although neither was ideal, everyone had no objection and was quickly adopted unanimously.

As soon as the meeting of the National Defense Committee ended, the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately summoned the Ethiopian ambassador to Somalia to express a strong protest to the other side.

Not long after, the Somali ambassador to Ethiopia sent an official diplomatic note to the Ethiopian diplomatic department on the Somali political axe, protesting against the provocative behavior of the Ethiopian political axe military on the border, and solemnly warning the Ethiopian political axe that if Ethiopia unilaterally creates a series of consequences caused by border tension, the Ethiopian political axe will bear the burden, and finally solemnly stated that the Somali political axe does not rule out any means to respond to the provocation of Somalia.

The tough-worded and sternly worded diplomatic note had a tremendous impact on Ethiopia's political axe. Because everyone felt the murderous spirit hidden in this protest letter, everyone did not hesitate to respond by 'any means' if the provocations of the Ethiopian border guards were not effectively stopped.

When this protest letter was spread to the outside world, it attracted the attention of international public opinion. Even some media outlets have changed the headlines on the front page to the horror list of "a second East African war is about to break out".

The spokesman of the Somali military announced the next morning that in order to better complete the Somali Army's integration and disarmament plan, the Somali Defense Forces will be redeployed and changed within this week, hoping that the outside world will not be sensitive, and this is a completely normal military movement.

The four major military regions have immediately begun to deploy troops, several main forces have been deployed to strategic points along the Somali and Ethiopian borders, and all border checkpoints connected to the Ethiopian border have been strengthened with fortifications and alerts.

War, it seems, is on the verge of breaking out!

As the deputy commander-in-chief of the Somali Defence Forces, and in fact the first leader of the Defence Forces, Li Mo is not idle in his office.

First of all, there are telephone calls from the commanders of the four major military regions and the commanders of the main forces, each of which hopes to place this possible self-defense counterattack in its own military region, while the commanders of the main forces hope to be able to carry out this task with their own troops.

Soldiers, it's not their turn to care whether they fight or not, but once the top decides, they can't lag behind others. In recent years, with the exception of a few countries, most of the armies have never even fought in a war, and although the Somali Defence Forces have been 'lucky' to fight a few times, they have won the war quickly with absolute superiority. Ethiopia, on the other hand, is not the same as Kenya and Somaliland in the past, and it can be regarded as equal in strength as Somalia. Once the fight starts, it is definitely not easy.

And this time is the time for soldiers to make meritorious contributions. In peacetime, Li Mo instilled in the troops the idea of fighting and making meritorious contributions and promotions, and in the Somali army, doves are almost non-existent, and even if they do, most of them are some civilians in the three general departments and military district commands. Those who can serve as commanders of troops are militants.

A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, since the reform in Somalia, there are less than 20 major generals and brigadier generals, and there is a lot of room for everyone to rise, the company commander wants to be promoted to battalion commander, the infantry brigade commander wants to be promoted to the commander of the infantry brigade, the commander of the infantry brigade is promoted to the commander of the military region and even the head of the three general departments, the commander of the service, the member of the National Defense Commission, and so on.

Li Mo was still very satisfied with his subordinates' eager attitude towards war. At present, although we are still focusing on economic construction and national defense construction, we cannot one-sidedly pursue economic construction or national defense construction, and we must not use these reasons to obliterate the positive surnames of the officers and men of the armed forces. But you can't be reckless, how to grasp a degree of this, Li Mo is still very confident.

But what really gave Li Mo a headache was a 'personal phone call' from several important officials from countries close to him to explore whether Mali really wanted to go to war.

(To be continued)