The Caprivi Strip is of politico-strategic military importance. During the Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979), South West African People Organization's and Caprivi African National Union (CANU) liberation war against the South African occupation (1965–1994) and the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002), the Strip saw continual military action and multiple incursions by various armed forces using the Strip as a corridor to access other territories.