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War of Intervention in Angola: Volume 5: Angolan and Cuban Air Forces, 1987-1992 (Africa@War) by Adrien Fontanellaz, Tom Cooper, José Augusto Matos is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Through late 1987 and early 1988, the battlefields of southern Angola moved ever further away from the border with South West Africa/Namibia, until the showdown between the Soviet and Cuban-supported government in Luanda and South African-supported insurgency of UNITA culminated in the controversial and still much disputed Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. During this period, Angolan and Cuban airpower slowly grew to a point where it outmatched the SAAF, in turn limiting the freedom of movement of the SADF and UNITA ground forces, and reducing their operations to attritional battles, with little chance of achieving major victories on terms acceptable to the government in Pretoria. As the changing political climate between East and West, and in Africa began to bring about and end to the South African intervention in Angola and the occupation of South West Africa/Namibia, the government of Angola was able to switch its attentions to dealing with UNITA. Volume 5 of War of Intervention in Angola examines in detail this final period of Cuban involvement in the long and tragic civil war that ruined Angola between 1975 and 1992. While the emphasis is upon the operations of the Angolan and Cuban

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Author

Adrien Fontanellaz, Tom Cooper, José Augusto Matos

Publisher

Helion and Company

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911628651

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities