The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale write by Horace Campbell. This book was released on 1990. The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale write by Leopold Scholtz. This book was released on 2016. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The battle for the town of Cuito Cuanavale is a myth. The conduct of Operations Modular, Hooper, Packer and Displace by South African and UNITA forces in the 6th Military Region of southeastern Angola initially prevented FAPLA and its allies from occupying the UNITA town of Mavinga. The success achieved in this endeavor then led to the conduct of offensive military operations to force FAPLA and its allies to relinquish their bridgehead over the Cuito River and to redeploy to the western bank at Cuito Cuanavale. The FAPLA deployment and occupation of Cuito Cuanavale, on the western bank of the Cuito River, was never contested militarily by opposing forces during 1987 and 1988.
The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola
The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola write by Horace Campbell. This book was released on 1988. The Siege of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War
The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War write by Peter Polack. This book was released on 2013-12-13. The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating chronicle of the Cold War battle where US and Soviet weapons, as well as Cuban and South African troops, took part in the Angolan Civil War. In the late 1980s, as America prepared to claim its victory in the Cold War over the Soviet Union, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The socialist Angolan government, stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out the resistance group UNITA, secretly supplied by the United States, in order to claim sovereignty. But as Angolan forces gained the upper hand, apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolans to call on their own foreign reinforcements—the army of Communist Cuba. Thus began the epic Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: an odd match-up of South African Boers against Castro’s armed forces. While South Africa was subject to an arms boycott since 1977, the Cuban and Angolan troops had the latest Soviet weapons. But UNITA had its secret US supply line, and the South Africans knew how to fight. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and West, The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War unveils a remarkable episode in the endgame of the Cold War—one that is largely unknown to the American public.
The War for Africa
The War for Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War for Africa write by Fred Bridgland. This book was released on 2017-06-19. The War for Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “gripping” story of the Angolan Civil War and how it evolved into a Cold War struggle between superpowers (New York Journal of Books). Lasting over a quarter of a century, from 1975 to 2002, the Angolan Civil War began as a power struggle between two former liberation movements, the MPLA and UNITA—but became a Cold War struggle with involvement from the Soviet Union, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States. This book examines the height of the Cuban-South African fighting in Angola in 1987–88, when three thousand South African soldiers and about eight thousand UNITA guerrilla fighters fought in alliance against the Cubans and the armed forces of the Marxist MPLA government, a force of over fifty thousand men. Fred Bridgland pieced together the course of the war, fought in one of the world’s most remote and wild terrains, by interviewing the South Africans who fought it, and many of their stories are woven into the narrative. This classic account of a Cold War struggle and its momentous consequences for the participants and the continent now includes a new preface and epilogue. “Highlights just how much political and social considerations dictate the outcome of war . . . A highly detailed work of military history, The War for Africa can tell us a lot about the nature of counter-insurgency warfare and how small states can become contested battlegrounds between superpowers.” —New York Journal of Books
