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Commands held
  
Chief of Army

Name
  
Dahir Elmi


Rank
  
General officer

Dahir Adan Elmi

Allegiance
  
Federal Government of Somalia

Awards
  
Gold Medal for Bravery and Service

Service/branch
  
Somali Armed Forces

General Dahir Adan Elmi (Somali: Daahir Aadan Cilmi, Arabic: ضاهر عدن علمي‎‎), also known as Dahir Aden Indha Qarshe, is a Somali military general.

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Ogaden campaign

Under the command of Col. Ali Hussein, Elmi led armored Somali National Army (SNA) battalions in the Qabri Dahare Front during the late 1970s Ogaden campaign. Qabri Dahare was the second city to fall during the offensive. The war was part of a broader SNA plan to unite all of the Somali-inhabited territories in the Horn region into a Greater Somalia (Soomaaliweyn).

Upon successful capture of Qabri Dahare in July 1977, the then Major Dahir Aden Indha Qarshe continued to be part of important northern fronts leading armored battalions in the Northern Front under the command of the 26th Division.

Chief of Army

On 13 March 2013, Elmi was appointed Chief of Army at a transfer ceremony in Mogadishu, where he replaced General Abdulkadir Sheikh Dini. Abdirisaq Khalif Hussein served as Elmi's Deputy Army Chief.

Elmi's term as Chief of Army ended on 25 June 2014, when he and his deputy General Hussein were transferred by presidential decree to other positions. The shuffle was part of a larger major national security reform. Elmi was succeeded as Chief of Army by General Abdullahi Anod, the former commander of the presidential guard unit, with General Abdullahi Osman Agey concurrently appointed as the new Deputy Chief of Army.

References

Dahir Adan Elmi Wikipedia