The Battle of Fada: How courage and ingenuity defeated superior armour The Battle of Fada in 1987 was a clash so legendary and unconventional that military academies around the world still study it today. It is the climax of what historians literally call the Toyota War. ​In the late 1980s, the tiny, impoverished nation of Chad found itself invaded by its northern neighbour, Libya. The Libyan forces were a massive, modern superpower by comparison. They had thousands of heavy Soviet T-55 tanks, armoured personnel carriers, MiG-23 fighter jets, and a highly...