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  • Angola[electronic resource] :a modern military history, 1961-2002 /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 967.304
    Title/Author: Angola : a modern military history, 1961-2002 // Stephen L. Weigert.
    Author: Weigert, Stephen L.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2011.
    Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : : maps.
    Subject: Guerrilla warfare - History - 20th century. - Angola
    Subject: HISTORY - South - Africa
    Subject: HISTORY - Modern
    Subject: HISTORY - Military
    Subject: HISTORY - Central. - Africa
    Subject: Angola - Civilization.
    ISBN: 9786613318077 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 6613318078 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230337831 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 023033783X (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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)
    [NT 15000229]: "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"--
    Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337831
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