Fidel Castro Admits Cuba's Crushed (Horribly) In Ogaden War

[Oxidant]

I don’t know why a certain poster here loves to practice revisionism. But facts about the Ogaden war are simple and not complex. I don’t know why people try to complicate this war. Somali army invaded the Ogaden, captured majority of it within a mere weeks crushing and humiliating the baffled Ethiopian forces and while always more deeper into Ethiopian territory. The Ethiopians counter offensive failed against the better equipped, trained and determined Somali forces. After their failure in recapturing the Ogaden they appealed for Soviet help.

Soviet Union comes to Ethiopia’s rescue, by witling telling Cuba to join this war. Soviet Union told the dim witted Cubans that the Somali forces were like the weak Angolan forces they fought against years earlier, however, the Soviet Union knew all in advance the strength of the Somali army. Basically, this was like a herder sending his cattle to the slaughterhouse. Originally, the Cubans and Ethiopians started their attack against Somali forces around Harra and Jigajiga only to slaughtered and destroyed. This is why in the war videos you only see Ethiopian and Cubans prisoners and dead bodies, since the Soviet Union used them as a test dummy.
After the abysmal failure of the Ethiopians and Cubans, than the Soviet Union forces joined the battle, and Somalia was never a match for a world power regardless of its military credentials at the time.

So the facts remain, Somalia alone manhandled Ethiopia and Cuba without many problems. But were overwhelmed by a super power. Nothing to be ashamed off really. Cubans soldiers, officers and generals still tell their children about the powerful courageous Somalis in the Ogaden. The sole reason Cuba even has Universal healthcare is because of the Somali army, they left thousands of Cuban men soulless and disheartened. Many returned home to revert to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and domestic violence. It is safe to say Somalia is the sole responsible for the disintegration of the Cuban society as a whole.

[Based]

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[luis1]

I don’t know why a certain poster here loves to practice revisionism. But facts about the Ogaden war are simple and not complex. I don’t know why people try to complicate this war. Somali army invaded the Ogaden, captured majority of it within a mere weeks crushing and humiliating the baffled Ethiopian forces and while always more deeper into Ethiopian territory. The Ethiopians counter offensive failed against the better equipped, trained and determined Somali forces. After their failure in recapturing the Ogaden they appealed for Soviet help.
Soviet Union comes to Ethiopia’s rescue, by witling telling Cuba to join this war. Soviet Union told the dim witted Cubans that the Somali forces were like the weak Angolan forces they fought against years earlier, however, the Soviet Union knew all in advance the strength of the Somali army. Basically, this was like a herder sending his cattle to the slaughterhouse. Originally, the Cubans and Ethiopians started their attack against Somali forces around Harra and Jigajiga only to slaughtered and destroyed. This is why in the war videos you only see Ethiopian and Cubans prisoners and dead bodies, since the Soviet Union used them as a test dummy.
After the abysmal failure of the Ethiopians and Cubans, than the Soviet Union forces joined the battle, and Somalia was never a match for a world power regardless of its military credentials at the time.

So the facts remain, Somalia alone manhandled Ethiopia and Cuba without many problems. But were overwhelmed by a super power. Nothing to be ashamed off really. Cubans soldiers, officers and generals still tell their children about the powerful courageous Somalis in the Ogaden. The sole reason Cuba even has Universal healthcare is because of the Somali army, they left thousands of Cuban men soulless and disheartened. Many returned home to revert to drug and alcohol abuse, suicide and domestic violence. It is safe to say Somalia is the sole responsible for the disintegration of the Cuban society as a whole.

The somalis only captured one cuban,is the cuban in the same video all know.

Hi,Oxidant,do you have source to prove your opinion?

Ogaden War has a different story.

Check out this sources:

A somali source:

Ali K Galaydh:

http://www.biyokulule.com/dr.%20galaydh.htm

Some 20,000 Cuban combat troops, a smaller number of Yemeni troops, and thousands of Soviet advisers were dispatched to the war front. A Deputy Commander of the Soviet ground forces, General Petrov, and a leading Cuban general, Arnaldo Ochoa (recently executed for drug trafficking), were entrusted with the task of rolling back the Somali forces. The Somali forces, despite their decisive victories over the Ethiopians, were no match for the Soviet-directed and Cuban-led forces which broke through their defenses and captured Jigjig on March 5, 1978. There were no contingency plans: Siyaad Barre decided to withdraw his troops on March 9th [1978].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogaden_War

Course of the war

Somalia committed to invade the Ogaden at 03:00 on July 13, 1977 (5 Hamle, 1969), according to Ethiopian documents (some other sources state 23 July).[13] According to Ethiopian sources, the invaders numbered 70,000 troops, 40 fighter planes, 250 tanks, 350 armoured personnel carriers, and 600 artillery, which would have meant practically the whole Somalian Army. By the end of the month 60% of the Ogaden had been taken by the SNA-WSLF force, including Gode, on the Shabelle River. The attacking forces did suffer some early setbacks; Ethiopian defenders at Dire Dawa and Jijiga inflicted heavy casualties on assaulting forces. The Ethiopian Air Force (EAF) also began to establish air superiority using its Northrop F-5s, despite being initially outnumbered by Somali MiG-21s. However, Somalia was easily overpowering Ethiopian military hardware and technology capability. Army-general Vasily Petrov of the Soviet Armed Forces had to report back to Moscow the "sorry state" of the Ethiopian army. The 3rd and 4th Ethiopian Infantry Divisions that suffered the brunt of the Somali invasion had practically ceased to exist.

The USSR, finding itself supplying both sides of a war, attempted to mediate a ceasefire. When their efforts failed, the Soviets abandoned Somalia. All aid to Siad Barre's regime was halted, while arms shipments to Ethiopia were increased. Soviet military aid (second in magnitude only to the October 1973 gigantic resupplying of Syrian forces during the Yom Kippur War) and advisors flooded into the country along with around 15,000 Cuban combat troops. Other communist countries offered assistance: the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen offered military assistance and North Korea helped train a "People's Militia"; East Germany likewise offered training, engineering and support troops.As the scale of communist assistance became clear in November 1977, Somalia broke diplomatic relations with the USSR and expelled all Soviet citizens from the country.

Not all communist states sided with Ethiopia. Because of the Sino-Soviet rivalry, China supported Somalia diplomatically and with token military aid. Romania under Nicolae Ceauşescu had a habit of breaking with Soviet policies and maintained good diplomatic relations with Siad Barre.

By 17 August elements of the Somali army had reached the outskirts of the strategic city of Dire Dawa. Not only was the country's second largest military airbase located here, as well as Ethiopia's crossroads into the Ogaden, but Ethiopia's rail lifeline to the Red Sea ran through this city, and if the Somalis held Dire Dawa, Ethiopia would be unable to export its crops or bring in equipment needed to continue the fight. Gebre Tareke estimates the Somalis advanced with two motorized brigades, one tank battalion and one BM battery upon the city; against them were the Ethiopian Second Militia Division, the 201 Nebelbal battalion, 781 battalion of the 78th Brigade, the 4th Mechanized Company, and a tank platoon possessing two tanks. The fighting was vicious as both sides knew what the stakes were, but after two days, despite that the Somalis had gained possession of the airport at one point, the Ethiopians had repulsed the assault, forcing the Somalis to withdraw. Henceforth, Dire Dawa was never at risk of attack.

The greatest single victory of the SNA-WSLF was a second assault on Jijiga in mid-September (the Battle of Jijiga), in which the demoralized Ethiopian troops withdrew from the town. The local defenders were no match for the assaulting Somalis and the Ethiopian military was forced to withdraw past the strategic strongpoint of the Marda Pass, halfway between Jijiga and Harar. By September Ethiopia was forced to admit that it controlled only about 10% of the Ogaden and that the Ethiopian defenders had been pushed back into the non-Somali areas of Harerge, Bale, and Sidamo. However, the Somalis were unable to press their advantage because of the high attrition on its tank battalions, constant Ethiopian air attacks on their supply lines, and the onset of the rainy season which made the dirt roads unusable. During that time, the Ethiopian government managed to raise and train a giant militia force 100,000 strong and integrated it into the regular fighting force. Also, since the Ethiopian army was a client of U.S weapons, hasty acclimatization to the new Warsaw Pact bloc weaponry took place.

From October 1977 until January 1978, the SNA-WSLF forces attempted to capture Harar, where 40,000 Ethiopians had regrouped and re-armed with Soviet-supplied artillery and armor; backed by 1500 Soviet "advisors" and 11,000 Cuban soldiers, 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.

The expected Ethiopian-Cuban attack occurred in early February; however, it was accompanied by a second attack that the Somalis did not expect. A column of Ethiopian and Cuban troops crossed northeast into the highlands between Jijiga and the border with Somalia, bypassing the SNA-WSLF force defending the Marda Pass. The attackers were thus able to assault from two directions in a "pincer" action, allowing the re-capture of Jijiga in only two days while killing 3,000 defenders. The Somali defense collapsed and every major Ethiopian town was recaptured in the following weeks. Recognizing that his position was untenable, Siad Barre ordered the SNA to retreat back into Somalia on 9 March 1978, although Rene LaFort claims that the Somalis, having foreseen the inevitable, had already withdrawn its heavy weapons.The last significant Somali unit left Ethiopia on 15 March 1978, marking the end of the war.

Effects of the war

Following the withdrawal of the SNA, the WSLF continued their insurgency. By May 1980, the rebels, with the assistance of a small number of SNA soldiers who continued to help the guerilla war, controlled a substantial region of the Ogaden. However by 1981 the insurgents were reduced to sporadic hit-and-run attacks and were finally defeated.

The Ogaden War weakened the Somali military. Almost one-third of the regular SNA soldiers, three-eighths of the armored units and half of the Somali Air Force (SAF) were lost. The weakness of the Barre regime led it to effectively abandon the dream of a unified Greater Somalia. The failure of the war aggravated discontent with the Barre regime; the first organized opposition group, the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), was formed by army officers in 1979.

http://www.acig.info/CMS/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=47

Somali Advance


Despite the apparent fiasco in air-to-air combats, the SAC continued its air offensive, striking regularly Ethiopian airfields and concentrations of ground forces. The WSLF - now supported by a whole armoured brigade of the Somali Army, equipped with British-made Centurion main battle tanks (MBTs) – led an advance ever deeper into northern Ogaden. Ethiopian resistance was weak: the few surviving units - including one equipped with M-24 Chafee tanks - were swiftly defeated and, on 9 August 1977, the regime in Addis Ababa was forced to admit that it lost the control over Ogaden.

By now both sides were deploying seasoned troops on the battlefield - regardless if newly recruited Army troops or raw militiamen. The local Somali tribesmen are used to carry personal weapons through their whole life, while the Ethiopians were rushing reinforcements to Ogaden from all parts of the country – leaving only skeleton units in Eritrea. Consequently, the fighting was extremely bitter and cost both sides many casualties. On 13 September Jijiga was taken by Somalis, with Ethiopians suffering very heavy losses in manpower and equipment - including the last few operational M-24s, and most of artillery left in the area.

In return, the Ethiopians claimed that the SAC probably lost at least 23 fighters by the date, some ten of which in air combats (including two MiG-21MFs in another clash with F-5As, over Kebri Dehar, and two shot down by newly deployed Ethiopian Soviet-made SA-3s SAMs, on 11 August), while a number of others crashed due to technical malfunctions, so that only some ten MiG-17s and MiG-21s remained operational at Hargeisa. Due to its superior training and better equipment, EtAF was soon to defeat the SAC in battle for air superiority. Ethiopian F-5-pilots have trained against their colleagues flying F-86 Sabres, and were more than ready to tackle Somali MiGs. After the training session, all the F-5s that remained operational - together with two serviceable Canberra bombers - were deployed to airfields at Bhir and Dire Dawa. Using newly-delivered F-5Es as interceptors, and F-5As and Canberras for ground attack, the Ethiopians swiftly overwhelmed the SAC.

This task was not completed without losses. At least two F-5As were shot down by ground fire during attacks against supply bases in western Somalia; a chartered civilian DC-3 was shot down by SA-7s, and both Canberras were damaged by anti-aircraft fire and rendered inoperational.

Nevertheless, on 29 September, the Somalis captured the important Gara Marda Pass, and one of their columns then turned towards Harer: the city and the whole 3rd Ethiopian Division were put under a siege

Switching Alliances


At this moment Cuba and the USSR entered the conflict - on the Ethiopian side. The Cubans officially wanted, „nothing else but to support the revolution of the Ethiopian people“, while the Soviets - offended by the fact that Barre kicked all the 6.000 Soviet "instructors" out of Somalia after learning about this deal - agreed to supply weapons needed for the intervention, in exchange for rights to use Ethiopian ports and bases.

On 25 November 1977, the Soviet Air Force initiated a huge air-bridge to Ethiopia, deploying no less but 225 Il-18, An-12B, An-22, and Il-76 transports from Tashkent, via Baghdad, over Aden and Masawa to Addis Ababa to fly enough BM-21s, T-55 and T-62 MBTs, BMP-1 and BRDM APCs, 130mm, 155mm and 185mm artillery, ammunition and supplies for three small divisions.

The first to arrive were BM-21s: deployed aboard EtAF transports to Harer, they were decisive in Ethiopian capability to repulse further Somali attacks before the rain-season. For the next two weeks, in a unique development that stunned most of Western observers, another Soviet transport aircraft was landing every 20 minutes at Addis Abbaba - day and night. In addition to immense amounts of equipment for Ethiopian Army, the Soviets also delivered 48 MiG-21bis' and MiG-23BNs, at least ten Mi-6s, a number of Mi-8s, and at least six Mi-24As (later to be increased to 16). Simultaneously, 6.000 Cuban mechanized troops were flown-in from Cuba and Angola, and equipped with 120 T-54 MBTs and 100 BTR-50 APCs delivered from the USSR, while some 300 instructors arrived from various Warsaw Pact countries.


Battle of Harer


The Somalis were fast to realize that the time was now not on their side any more. Counting on bad weather to keep the EtAF on the ground, on 28 November they staged their last offensive against Harer, while simultaneously attempting an advance down the road towards Alem Maya. However, by this time the first Cuban units were deployed in the area as well, together with several BM-21-batteries. They proved decisive: the Somali attack failed at great cost.

The fighting died down, with both sides digging in and scrambling to reinforce available units: even if Somalia was subsequently capable of securing some small amount of US and Egyptian support, the Soviet airbridge was continued and soon enough it was clear who was to win the race.

Despite reports about Somalis activating all their reservists, and - reportedly - also contracting 20 Pakistani pilots and some other foreign and domestic personnel to bring the SAC back into fighting condition, in late 1977 and early 1978 their air force actually cased operations over the Ogaden. This enabled the EtAF to unleash its full fighting capability against Somali troops inside Ethiopia.

On 8 January 1978, after a series of air strikes by F-5As, MiG-21s, and MiG-23BNs against Somali positions and also the air base at Hargeisa, an Ethiopian division - bolstered by Cuban armor and led by Soviet General Petrov - approached Somali positions around Harer. These were first put under constant artillery- and air-bombardments, and then stormed by 120 T-54 and T-62 tanks. The Somali defeat at Harer was complete: according to unconfirmed contemporary reports, one of their brigades was completely destroyed, losing possibly up to 3.000 men killed in that battle alone.

With the loss of Harer, the whole Somali position in Ogaden was actually outflanked: the Somalis were forced to retreat to Jijiga and Dible, the last important crossroads in the area, or else risk being cut off from their major supply bases. The rest of Ogaden had only very poor road communications: the remaining Somali and WSLF units were scattered and heavily depending on supply lines running from Hargheisa. Once these came under a direct threat they began a withdrawal towards the border. This withdrawal swiftly turned into a rout, with Cubans and Ethiopians racing to reach the Somali border before the remnants of three Somali brigades could do so.

Recognizing the threat of such a force for other local countries, Western powers scrambled to move their units into this part of the world, and the situation became so tense that the French deployed their aircraft carrier Clemanceau off the coast of Djibouti, in order to be in position to repel any eventual attack on their colony.


Rout at Jijiga


By early February, the position of Somali and WSLF troops in Ogaden was untennable: Ethiopian air attacks have destroyed almost all of their heavy weapons, and a series of fast offensives of Ethiopian and Cuban ground forces neutralized the WSLF as a fighting force. Worst yet, the WSLF and the regular Somali troops were threatened to be cut off of their bases in western Somalia. At the time there were no less but 11.000 Cuban troops in Ethiopia: 500 of them alone were training the Ethiopian People’s Militia, while some 8.000 were deployed in two mechanized brigades Castro insisted to be used only for liberation of Ogaden.

Consequently, on 9 February 1978, Somalia proclaimed a general mobilisation followed by a State of Emergency. Additional units were deployed along the frontier after the town of Hargeisa was bombed by Ethiopian F-5s, while large numbers of Somali-speaking refugees from the Ogaden crossed the border and with them came fleeing troops and WSLF-fighters.

All efforts of Barre's regime were in vain, however: the ultimate catastrophe occurred on 5 March 1978, when Gen. Petrov initiated a large combined-arms offensive against remnants of two Somali Army brigades and some minor WSLF-units concentrated at Jijiga. Within only few hours of that morning, the Cuban-flown Ethiopian MiG-21s, MiG-23s, and Mi-24s flew no less but 140 combat sorties, hitting the Somalis harder than ever before. Deploying the Ethiopian Infantry with Cuban armour and artillery support in a frontal attack against Somalis at Jijiga, Petrov simultaneously dispatched all available Mi-6s and Mi-8s to fly troops and 70 ASU-87s and BRDMs deep behind the enemy frontlines. These were followed by the second Cuban mechanized brigade, which drove deep around the Somali flank.

The Somalis fought bravely, but they had little armour on their own, no air cover and dwindling stocks of ammunition. "They were sitting ducks. They didn't have a chance", explained one military expert close to the Ethiopian high command in Mogadishu to foreing media.

After learning about the rout at Jijiga, Barre immediately announced that all Somali troops would be withdrawn from Ethiopia. It was too late: suffering catastrophic losses, the remaining Somali units dropped their weapons, fleeing north-east in complete disarray, pursued by Cuban tanks which drove through Jijiga and continued eastwards at a high pace. Behind them two Ethiopian divisions immediately started mopping-up operations, re-occupying Ogaden within the following week, and concluding their operations in the Jijiga area by 14 March.

Now Oxidant is your turn show me the source which prove Somalia won the war.

As you can see we(Cubans and Ethiopians) won the battles of Harer and Jijiga.

[luis1]

Oxidant:

This is why in the war videos you only see Ethiopian and Cubans prisoners and dead bodies, since the Soviet Union used them as a test dummy

A war video:

A soviet adviser says:

The cuban troops in Ethiopia played a very important role.With Cuban troops and Soviet support the ethiopian drove the somalis out the Ogaden.

Listen 4:48 to 5:20

I love the video.

Well I am stil waiting for your sources.

[luis1]

The battle of Jijiga in 1978

http://www.fireandfury.com/scenarios/jijiga.pdf

Historical Background

In September 1974, the long-reigning Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Sellassie, was overthrown by a Soviet-backed
communist insurrection led by a faction known as the ‘Derg’ (also spelled ‘Dergue’, which translates roughly as
‘Committee’). This brought the Horn of Africa totally within the Soviet sphere of influence, as Somalia, under the
dictatorship of Siad Barre, was already a firm Soviet client state.

However, the communist euphoria in Ethiopia was short-lived, as vicious internecine strife erupted within the Derg,
with various sub-factions vying for control of the leadership. This period of chaos and lack of strong central control
from Addis Abbaba emboldened several ethnic independence movements to mount rebellions – mainly within the
provinces of Tigray, Eritrea and Ogaden. In the ethnically-Somali Ogaden region, the most highly active of these
was the West Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), which began an active insurrection against the Derg in 1975. The
WSLF started receiving major military aid from Siad Barre’s Somalia in 1976.

The Derg’s internal squabbles finally ended in 1977, when the movement finally crystallised behind the leadership
of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was appointed as Head of State on 11th February of that year. Mengistu
immediately grasped the Ogaden problem by the horns, demanding that Somalia cease its direct military backing
for the WSLF. Siad Barre, somewhat predictably, flatly denied that the Somali National Army (SNA) had anything
to do with the WSLF, though he did concede that ‘volunteers’ had left the SNA in order to fight with the WSLF.
At this time, the military balance in the Horn of Africa was delicate. Derg forces significantly outnumbered the SNA
on paper (47,000 compared to 35,000), but much of it was tied down fighting the various ethnic insurrections and in
terms of materiel it was vastly inferior to the SNA, which had been supplied and trained by the USSR since the
1960s. For example, the SNA had three times the tank and artillery strength of the Derg and the Somali Air Force’s
MiG-21s outnumbered and outclassed the handful of Ethiopian Northrop F-5A ‘Freedom Fighters’.

The crisis finally came to a head on 13th July 1977, when Siad Barre gave up his pretence of neutrality. The SNA
and SNA-equipped ‘regular’ WSLF units invaded the Ogaden from Somalia, rapidly overrunning some 60% of the
region, including the city of Gode. However, there were some significant reverses for the heavily-mechanised SNA
forces – an SNA armoured brigade was badly defeated at Jijiga and another SNA force was repulsed at Dire Dawa
with heavy losses. In the skies, the Somali MiG-21s were outclassed by the superbly-handled Ethiopian F5s.
A second assault was launched on Jijiga in September, but this time the Ethiopian regulars retreated precipitately,
back through the strategic Marda Pass to the city of Harar. The local militia meanwhile, made a gallant stand at
Jijiga, but were soon overrun by the Somali offensive. Buoyed up by their success, the WSLF/SNA forces moved
on through the undefended Marda Pass to their goal at Harar

However, the strategic situation had changed spectacularly in the meantime and the pendulum was swinging back
to the Derg…

The USSR had found itself suddenly supporting both sides in a major regional war. Initially, the Soviets attempted
to broker a ceasefire between their two African allies, but Siad Barre scented victory and was not prepared to
compromise. The Soviets also astutely assessed that an alliance with Ethiopia (with its potentially high mineral
wealth) had much more to offer the USSR than dirt-poor Somalia. Consequently, the USSR began pouring money,
arms and Cuban troops into Ethiopia. Siad Barre responded by expelling Soviet advisors from Somalia and began
re-aligning himself with the USA. Within a few short months, the Soviets had considerably re-equipped the Derg
and had supplied some 1,500 advisors to lead and train the Derg forces. They also ferried some 18,000 Cuban
combat troops to Ethiopia by air, as well as 2,000 South Yemenis. North Korea and East Germany also provided
some advisors to the Derg.

When the WSLF/SNA forces arrived at Harar, they found the city to be stuffed full of hardened Cuban troops. The
siege of Harar lasted for over four months, but with their logistical tail continually cut by Ethiopian and Cuban air
power, the WSLF/SNA were finally forced to break off the siege in January 1978. They fell back to Jijiga and the
defensible Marda Pass. However, a Cuban battlegroup had already outflanked the pass and was descending on
Jijiga. The scene was set for the final major battle of the Ogaden War…

[jalaaludin5]

A soviet adviser says:

The cuban troops in Ethiopia played a very important role.With Cuban troops and Soviet support the ethiopian drove the somalis out the Ogaden.

What's more is there to discuss?

Like i said, Ethiopia have always been on the lap of none Ethiopians (mainly the West) and that's what you bragging about.

[luis1]

Did you like the video?

The soviet adviser is very clear:

The cuban troops in Ethiopia played a very important role.With Cuban troops and Soviet support the ethiopian drove the somalis out the Ogaden

This is not my opinion about Ogaden War,this is the opinion of an expert about Ogaden War.

Check out this Somali source:

http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/pub ... pter.shtml

The 1977 Ogaden War, between Somalia and Ethiopia, plunged the country into a new chapter in history. Somalia's then-effective army overran Ethiopian defenses and successfully captured most Somali-speaking territories that fall within Ethiopia's international boundary. Gen. Barre lost the war after a congregation of enemy forces – Soviet, Cuban and South Yemeni troops – aided the defeated army of Ethiopia in pushing back Somali forces.

[luis1]

Oxidant.

Where are your sources?

I have put several somali and western sources on the forum.

I am still waiting for your sources.

Your article about Ogaden War was very boring,many words but We can not find any source.

Are you a serious expert or historian about Ogaden War?