Angola [electronic resource] : A Modern Military History, 1961-2002 /
Weigert, S.author.
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It also covers, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord.
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Angola: A Modern Military History, 1961-2002; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Indecisive Leadership and Protracted Warfare; Theories of Guerrilla Warfare: Adapted and Adulterated; UNITA: Ardent Reformers or Ambivalent Revolutionaries?; Fighting to Win: Mao's Ambivalent Legacy; Fighting to Talk: Grivas's Ambivalent Legacy; An Uncertain Future and a Reinterpreted Past; Chapter 2: The Quest for a Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare (1961-65); Mao's African Disciples; Pierre Mulele and the Kwilu Rebellion (1963-68)
Angola's War for Independence and the Debate over Appropriate StrategiesRevolutionary Angolan Precedents; Real or Imagined Role Models: Frantz Fanon and the FNLA; From Fanon to Guevara to Mao; Chapter 3: Asian Strategies and Angolan Realities (1966-77); History and Geography; From Theory to Practice; Competition in a Vacuum; A Stubborn Opponent; Auxiliaries and Allies; Portugal and the Domestic Politics of Guerrilla Warfare; Origins of the Angolan Civil War; Alvor and the Augmentation of Insurgent Forces; A Disastrous Chain Reaction; The Race for Luanda; Havana, Moscow, and the MPLA Prevail
Relearning Mao's Military LessonsChapter 4: Guerrilla and Conventional Warfare (1978-90); Escalating Guerrilla Warfare and Cross Border Combat; Patrons and Enhanced Power; Expansion and Elaboration; Pretoria's Widening War in the Southwest; A Diplomatic Respite; Mavinga: Military Focal Point of the Angolan Civil War; Early Ebb and Flow; The 1985 Campaign (Operation Second Congress): Technical and Quantitative Modifications; Operation Iron Fist (1986); "The Return of the Elephants": The 1987 Mavinga Campaign; The Brazzaville Accord and a Redefinition of the Military Balance
Gbadolite and the "Fog" of DiplomacyAn Unresolved Debate: One Front or Two?; Innovative Paths Not Taken; From War to Diplomacy; Lingering Doubts and Signs of UNITA Factionalism; Chapter 5: From Peace to War and Back (1991-2002); Bicesse and Its Flaws; UNITA: Further Fissures in the Monolith; An Ambiguous Election Outcome and the Return to War; Talking and Fighting; From Namibe to Addis Ababa and All-Out War; Luanda Regains the Tactical Initiative; The Lusaka Accord: A Poisoned Peace; Steps Forward, Steps Back; Savimbi's Political Status, Diamonds, and Oil; Hope Realized, Trust Betrayed
A New Regional Balance of PowerA Diminished UN Peacekeeping Force and an Emboldened Angolan Army; Lusaka's Last Gasps; Angola's Third Civil War (1998-2002); Less Fighting, More Talking; FAA Turns the Tide: Operation Restauro; UNITA Regroups and Savimbi Vanishes; Operation Hexagono; Operation Triangulo; Ambivalence, Regional Distractions, and Persistence; Simultaneous Offensives; Savimbi Speaks, UNITA Convenes; Flexibility and Rigidity; A Second Round of Concurrent Campaigns; Operation Quissonde (Brave Ant); Savimbi's Last Days; From War to Peace; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Unfinished Business
Leadership: Legacy and Strategy
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War era. It also covers, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord.
Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro.
União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola.
Africa—History.
Ethnology—Africa.
Politics and war.
Military history.
Africa, Sub-Saharan—History.
History, Modern.
African History.
African Culture.
Military and Defence Studies.
History of Military.
History of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Modern History.