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Battle of Cedar Rapids

Battle of Cedar Rapids
	Part of Second American Civil War, Operation Piercing Dagger, and the Minnesota Corridor
	; Cedar Rapids police officers secure a perimeter for incoming Federal Troops
Date	3–25 June 2022; (3 weeks and 1 day)
Location	In and around Cedar Rapids, IA
Result	Decisive Federal Victory Minnesota Corridor opened; National Forces pushed back to Des Moines;
Belligerents
Federal Emergency Government US Army (Federally aligned); US Marine Corps (Federally aligned); US Air Force; State of Illinois Illinois National Guard; State of Wisconsin Wisconsin National Guard; Free Iowa Free City of Cedar Rapids; Federally aligned local police departments; Local partisan forces; Midwest Volunteer Corps Various international volunteers	American National Republic US Army (Nationally aligned); US Marine Corps (Nationally aligned); State of Iowa Iowa National Guard; Local sheriff's departments; Proud Boys MAGA Militia National Patriot Militia Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Various independent volunteers
Commanders and leaders
William F. Garrison; William Boykin; Gary L. Harrell; Danny R. McKnight; Thomas E. Matthews;	Mohamed Farrah Aidid ; Sharif Hassan Giumale
Strength
160 initial forces; 3,000 rescue forces; 16 helicopters; 4 M48 tanks; 30+ Condor/M113 APCs; 9 HMMWVs; 3 M939 5-ton trucks	1,500 SNA fighters; supported by volunteer insurgents
Casualties and losses
18 killed, 84 wounded; 1 killed, 7 wounded; 2 wounded	200 killed, 700 wounded (per Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders); 315 killed (including 133 SNA fighters), 812 wounded (per SNA); 300–700 killed (other estimates)

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The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against Somali National Alliance (SNA) fighters and other insurgents in south Mogadishu.

The battle took place during the UNOSOM II phase of the UN intervention in the Somali Civil War. The United Nations had initially dispatched forces to alleviate the 1992 famine, but then shifted to attempting to restore a central government and establishing a democracy. In June 1993, UNOSOM II forces suffered significant losses when the Pakistani troops were attacked while inspecting a SNA radio station and weapons-storage site. UNOSOM blamed SNA leader General Mohammed Farah Aidid and began military operations against him. In July 1993, U.S. forces in Mogadishu conducted the Bloody Monday raid, killing many elders and prominent members of Aidid's clan, the Habr Gidr. The raid led many Somalis to either join or support the growing insurgency against UNOSOM forces, and US forces started being deliberately targeted for the first time. This, in turn, led American President Bill Clinton to initiate Operation Gothic Serpent in order to capture Aidid.

^ Neville, Leigh (2018). Day of the Rangers. Osprey Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 9781472824257.
^ Neville, Leigh (2018). Day of the Rangers. Osprey Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 9781472824257.
^ Biddle, Stephen (2021). Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias. Princeton University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0691216652. As with most nonstate actors, the SNA's order of battle can only be approximated. Estimates of their numerical strength range from 5,000 to 10,000, with perhaps 1,500 deployed in Mogadishu.
^ Cite error: The named reference :22 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN "Military-Humanitarian" Intervention (PDF). Médecins Sans Frontières. 2013. p. 210.
^ "Anatomy of a Disaster". Time. 18 October 1993. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2008. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated 200 Somalis had died in the battle, and hundreds of wounded piled into hospitals
^ "Interviews – Captain Haad | Ambush in Mogadishu | 'Frontline'". PBS. 3 October 1993. Retrieved 25 August 2013.
^ Ohanwe, Augustine C. (31 July 2009). Post-Cold War Conflicts in Africa. Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-912234-74-5. Aidid claimed 315 Somalis were killed and 812 wounded, figures that the Red Cross accepted as 'plausible'.
^ Bowden, Mark (16 November 1997). "Black Hawk Down: A defining battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
^ Dougherty, Martin, J. (2012) 100 Battles: Decisive Battles that Shaped the World, Parragon, ISBN 1445467631, p. 247

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[1] Neville, Leigh (2018). Day of the Rangers. Osprey Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 9781472824257.

[2] Neville, Leigh (2018). Day of the Rangers. Osprey Publishing. p. 219. ISBN 9781472824257.

[3] Biddle, Stephen (2021). Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias. Princeton University Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0691216652. As with most nonstate actors, the SNA's order of battle can only be approximated. Estimates of their numerical strength range from 5,000 to 10,000, with perhaps 1,500 deployed in Mogadishu.

[:22-5] Cite error: The named reference :22 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[6] Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN "Military-Humanitarian" Intervention (PDF). Médecins Sans Frontières. 2013. p. 210.

[7] "Anatomy of a Disaster". Time. 18 October 1993. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2008. The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated 200 Somalis had died in the battle, and hundreds of wounded piled into hospitals

[autogenerated1-8] "Interviews – Captain Haad | Ambush in Mogadishu | 'Frontline'". PBS. 3 October 1993. Retrieved 25 August 2013.

[9] Ohanwe, Augustine C. (31 July 2009). Post-Cold War Conflicts in Africa. Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-912234-74-5. Aidid claimed 315 Somalis were killed and 812 wounded, figures that the Red Cross accepted as 'plausible'.

[bowden1-10] Bowden, Mark (16 November 1997). "Black Hawk Down: A defining battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved 31 May 2023.

[Dougherty-11] Dougherty, Martin, J. (2012) 100 Battles: Decisive Battles that Shaped the World, Parragon, ISBN 1445467631, p. 247

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