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Article: Arms for the Horn: U.S. Security Policy in Ethiopia and Somalia, 1953-1991.
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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The cold war made the Horn of Africa a vast receptacle for weaponry. For some three decades arms were the currency with which the United States and the Soviet Union bought bases and political influence in Ethiopia and Somalia, two countries endowed by geography with strategic importance and whose antagonism to one another mirrored the mutual antagonism of their great power patrons. In and of itself this handing out of military hardware by the United States and the Soviet Union in the pursuit of their cold war objectives was hardly novel; it happened all around the world. What was unique about the Horn of Africa was that the United States and the Soviet Union each started ...
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