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Commerce raiding, tonnage war, and unrestricted submarine warfare, as with privateering, the German U-Boat campaigns of the First and Second World Wars, and the United States submarine campaign against Japan during World War II.

Scorched earth policy, as with the March to the Sea during the American Civil War and the Japanese " Three Alls Policy" during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Blockade and sieging of population centers, as with the Allied blockade of Germany and the Siege of Leningrad during the First and Second World Wars.

Strategic bombing, as during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War (Operations Rolling Thunder and Linebacker II).

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Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Yet the TPLF's fighters make up a superior force with levels of commitment and discipline that the Ethiopian military cannot match - a fact of which Abiy Ahmed is almost certainly aware.This section does not cite any sources. Tigrayans form a small minority in Ethiopia, numbering just six million, and their leaders do not have the personnel to form a large, occupying army. The war itself is likely to be futile, despite the various claims of victory emanating from Mr Ahmed and Mr Rado.Īs we discovered during our travels, most people outside of Tigray nurse feelings of real contempt for the TPLF, such was their legacy of authoritarian rule when they dominated national politics.Ĭan their forces realistically expect to hold large towns and cities in the neighbouring regions of Amhara and Afar, when the vast majority of people there do not want them? The historical narrative has barely changed, for this country remains a geographical concept, not a community of men and women bound by common interests.