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The Chadian Armed Forces (Forces Armées Tchadiennes or FAT) were the army of the central government of Chad from 1960 to 1979, under the southern presidents François Tombalbaye and Félix Malloum, until the downfall of the latter in 1979, when the head of the gendarmerie, Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, assumed command. Chad (Tchad تشاد Tshād) officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a Landlocked country in Central Africa. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) François Tombalbaye, also called Ngarta Tombalbaye ( June 15, 1918 &ndash April 13, 1975) was a teacher and a Trade union General Félix Malloum or Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi (born 1932 is a Chadian politician from the south A gendarmerie or gendarmery (dʒɛnˈdɑrməriː or /ˌʒɑndɑrməˈriː/ after the French is a Military body charged with Police duties among civilian Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué (born May 20, 1939) is a Chadian politician and former army officer Joined by gendarmerie units, FAT became a regional force representing primarily the Sara ethnic group of the five southern prefectures. The Sara are an Ethnic group in Central Africa, who reside mostly in Chad, making up approximatively 30% of its southern population Chad was divided into 14 Prefectures from 1960, the year of independence to 1999, when the country was divided in 28 departments A further It joined with the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) forces fighting against Hissène Habré and was a recipient of aid from Libya. The Transitional Government of National Unity ( Gouvernement d'Union Nationale de Transition or GUNT was the coalition government of armed groups that nominally ruled Chad Hissène Habré (born 1942 also spelled Hissen Habré, was the leader of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990 Libya ( ليبيا ar-Latn Lībiyā; Libyan vernacular: Lībya; Amazigh:) officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab FAT began to disintegrate during 1982 as a result of defeats inflicted by Habré's Armed Forces of the North (FAN). Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) The Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord or FAN was a Chadian rebel army active during the Chadian Civil War. Most remaining soldiers accepted integration into FAN or resumed their insurgency as codos. The Codos or Commandos were guerrilla groups active in southern Chad from 1983 to 1986 that resisted domination of their region by the President

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African military stub  This African military article is a stub. FROLINAT ( Front de Libération Nationale du Tchad; National Liberation Front of Chad) is an insurgent rebel group that was active in Chad between 1966 and The Coup d'état that terminated Tombalbaye's government received an enthusiastic response in N'Djamena. A military is an Organization authorized by its Nation to use force usually including use of Weapons in defending its Country (or by attacking You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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