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Angolaa modern military history, 1961-2002 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	AngolaStephen L. Weigert.
Reminder of title:	a modern military history, 1961-2002 /
Author:	Weigert, Stephen L.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,c2011.
Description:	1 online resource (272 p.) :maps.
Subject:	Guerrilla warfareHistory20th century.Angola
Subject:	AngolaCivilization.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230337831
ISBN:	9786613318077 (electronic bk.)

Angolaa modern military history, 1961-2002 /
Weigert, Stephen L.

Angolaa modern military history, 1961-2002 /[electronic resource] :Stephen L. Weigert. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,c2011. - 1 online resource (272 p.) :maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.

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)

"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 is also the first to cover, in detail, the final phase of warfare in Angola, 1998-2002, culminating in Jonas Savimbi's death and the signing of the Luena Accord. Author Stephen Weigart offers a controversial account of the strategy of guerrilla warfare employed by the Unita insurgency as well as an assessment of the role and significance of leadership in insurgency. He challenges the conventional view of Jonas Savimbi as a 'student of Mao Zedong' and demonstrates that his strategy of guerrilla warfare represented a more complex and nuanced adaptation of additional influences, notably Colonel George Grivas of the 1950s Cyprus insurgency. Moreover, this account also urges the reader to consider Savimbi's 'charisma' as a character trait which blinded and distracted many from a more sober assessment of his political inclinations (reformer or revolutionary) and his abilities as a military commander"--

ISBN: 9786613318077 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613318077

Source: 534297Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro.
Subjects--Corporate Names:

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Uni�ao Nacional para a Independ�encia Total de Angola.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Guerrilla warfare
--History--Angola--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

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Angola
--Civilization.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DT1405 / .W45 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 967.304

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505 0 $a 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)
505 8 $a 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
505 8 $a 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
505 8 $a 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
505 8 $a 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
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