South Africa's Invasion of Angola

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South africa invasion would have been successful if cuba had not despatched 36 thousand troops to push the south african defense forces out. How did that escalation come about? And where did cuban troops come from? And how why was cuba's interintervention so decisive on the ground? S leme stat you say, how did the intervention come about? So let's spend a couple of on the south africans. The south afAfrican government, meaning the inner corps that was aware of the covert operation, had been fully united as long as it was a question of sending weapons and military instructor. When it is a question of invading with troops, there is a division

Part one of Dan's two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba's military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line, including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony. Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps Support The Dig with money at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter. Check out Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674245952