Battle of Harar
Battle of Harar | |||||||
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Part of Ogaden War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ethiopia Cuba Support: Soviet Union |
Somalia WSLF | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
40,000 soldiers 16,000 soldiers 1,500 advisors[1] | 20,000 soldiers[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3,000 casualties[3] 15 tanks captured many APCs captured 28 artillery pieces captured[3] |
The Battle of Harar was a battle of the Ogaden War. The battle took place from October 1977 until January 1978, and was fought near Harar, Ethiopia.[4] The Soviet advisers and Cuban soldiers took part supporting the Ethiopian army, during the battle they engaged the attackers in vicious fighting. Though the Somali forces reached the city outskirts by November, they were too exhausted to take the city and eventually had to withdraw to await the Ethiopian counterattack.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Clodfelter 2017, p. 557.
- ^ "Somalia The Ogaden War: Performance and Implications of Defeat". The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ a b Tareke, Gebru (5 November 2013). "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited". The International Journal of African Historical Studies Vol. 33 No. 3 (2000) pp. 657.
- ^ Jesse, Neal G.; Dreyer, John R. (2016-06-16). Small States in the International System: At Peace and at War. Lexington Books. pp. 148–149. ISBN 9781498509701.
- Clodfelter, M. (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 (4th ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0786474707.
Categories:
- Battles involving Ethiopia
- Battles involving Somalia
- 1977 in Ethiopia
- 1978 in Ethiopia
- Conflicts in 1977
- Conflicts in 1978
- Battles of the Ogaden War
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