Battle of Harar

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 Harar city outskirts by November, they did not take the city and eventually withdrew to await the Ethiopian counterattack.[1]

Battle of Harar
Part of Ogaden War
DateOctober 1977 - 27 January 1978
Location
Hararghe, Ethiopia
Result Ethiopian victory
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]

See also

References
  1. Clodfelter 2017, p. 557.
  2. "Somalia The Ogaden War: Performance and Implications of Defeat". The Library of Congress Country Studies; CIA World Factbook. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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