Part of the Chadian–Libyan conflict and the Cold War
Chadian soldiers on a Toyota Land Cruiser pickup truck in 2008. Vehicles such as these gave the 1986–1987 conflict its name.
Date
December 16, 1986 – September 11, 1987 (8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture, Chad
Result
Chadian and French victory
Ceasefire agreement
Expulsion of Libyan forces from Chad
Belligerents
Libya
CDR
PLO[1][2]
FANT
FAP
France (Opération Épervier)
Commanders and leaders
Muammar Gaddafi
Khalifa Haftar (POW)[3]
Mahmoud Abu Marzouq
Hissène Habré
Hassan Djamous
Idriss Déby
François Mitterrand
Jean Saulnier
Strength
Libya:
90,000[4]
300+ tanks
60+ aircraft
CDR:
1,000 militia[5]
FANT:
28,000[6]
FAP:
1,500–2,000[7]
France:
1,500
12+ aircraft
Casualties and losses
7,500 killed
1,000 captured
800 tanks & APCs lost
28–32 aircraft destroyed[8]
1,000 killed[8]
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Chadian–Libyan conflict
Tacaud
Second Battle of N'Djamena
Manta
Épervier
El Dorado Canyon
Tibesti War
Toyota War
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Toyota War
Ouadi Doum
Fada
B'ir Kora
Aouzou
Maaten al-Sarra
The Toyota War (Arabic: حرب التويوتا, romanized: Ḥarb al-Tūyūtā, French: Guerre des Toyota), also known as the Great Toyota War,[9] which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Chad–Libya border, was the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan War. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks, primarily the Toyota Hilux and the Toyota Land Cruiser, used to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans, and as technicals.[10] The 1987 war resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 men killed and US$1.5 billion worth of military equipment destroyed or captured.[11] Chadian forces only suffered 1,000 deaths.[8]
The war began with the Libyan occupation of northern Chad in 1983, when Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, refusing to recognise the legitimacy of the Chadian President Hissène Habré, militarily supported the attempt by the opposition Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) to overthrow Habré. The plan was foiled by the intervention of France which, first with Operation Manta and later with Operation Epervier, limited Libyan expansion to north of the 16th parallel, in the most arid and sparsely inhabited part of Chad.[12]
In 1986, the GUNT rebelled against Gaddafi, stripping Libya of its main cover of legitimacy for its military presence in Chad. Seeing an occasion to unify Chad behind him, Habré ordered his forces to pass the 16th parallel so as to link up with the GUNT rebels (who were fighting the Libyans in Tibesti) in December.[13] A few weeks later a bigger force struck at Fada, destroying the local Libyan garrison. In three months, combining methods of guerilla and conventional warfare in a common strategy,[14] Habré was able to retake almost all of northern Chad, and in the following months, inflicted new heavy defeats on the Libyans, until a ceasefire putting an end to the conflict was signed in September. The ceasefire left open the issue of the disputed Aouzou Strip, which was eventually assigned to Chad by the International Court of Justice in 1994.
^"قصة من تاريخ النشاط العسكري الفلسطيني... عندما حاربت منظمة التحرير مع القذافي ضد تشاد - رصيف22". 4 December 2018.
^Talhami, Ghada Hashem (30 November 2018). Palestinian Refugees: Pawns to Political Actors. Nova Publishers. ISBN 9781590336496 – via Google Books.
^Touchard, Laurent (21 October 2014). "Libye : la deuxième vie de Khalifa Haftar au Tchad et la défaite finale de Ouadi Doum". Jeune Afrique. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
^Metz 2004, p. 254.
^The Americana Annual, 1988, 180
^Azevedo 1998, p. 119.
^The Economic Cost of Soviet Military Manpower Requirements, 143
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