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  • Angola[electronic resource] :a modern military history, 1961-2002 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 967.304
    書名/作者: Angola : a modern military history, 1961-2002 // Stephen L. Weigert.
    作者: Weigert, Stephen L.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2011.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (272 p.) : : maps.
    標題: Guerrilla warfare - History - 20th century. - Angola
    標題: HISTORY - South - Africa
    標題: HISTORY - Modern
    標題: HISTORY - Military
    標題: HISTORY - Central. - Africa
    標題: Angola - Civilization.
    ISBN: 9786613318077 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 6613318078 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230337831 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 023033783X (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.
    內容註: 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)
    摘要、提要註: "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"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230337831
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