THE BATTLE OF CUITO CUANAVALE: COLD WAR ANGOLAN FINALE, 1987-1988 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Leopold Scholz | 64 pages | 13 Oct 2016 | 30 Degrees South Publishers | 9781909384620 | English | Johannesburg, South Africa The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Cold War Angolan Finale, - Le | Bushwar Militaria & Books Who were these men? Twenty-five years have passed since South Africans were being shot, hacked or burned to death in political conflict. The memory of the trauma has faded where some 20 people were killed between and Conventional wisdom claims that they died at the hands of a state-backed Third Force. The more accurate explanation is that they died as a Botha, working in the Security Branch, This war is not fought with bullets or artillery shells, not with tanks or bombers, but rather with words. The war is, in effect, fought again on paper. 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Many misunderstandings, some of which were purposefully created by Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, are put to rest. The analysis contains many lessons about mechanised warfare in the African context from which both laymen and military professionals alike may learn. A scene from the battle. Several other FAPLA brigades wilted under heavy bombardment but managed to retreat to Cuito, a minor town near the confluence of two rivers that constitute its name, set in the remote expanse of south-east Angola, a region the Portuguese referred to as the Land at the End of the Earth. Cuito could have been overrun then and there by the SADF, changing the strategic situation overnight. But, for whatever reason, the SADF failed to seize the initiative. This allowed an initial contingent of Cuban troops to rush to the town from Menongue, kilometers to the north-west and help organize the defences. It is from this point in the battle that opinions and interpretations of events differ. How the battle is seen, depends on how the intention of the South African regime is perceived. Following the battles at the Lomba River in November , battles on 13 January and 14 and 15 February followed. It is argued that the actions of the SADF prior to the 23 March are clear evidence of their determination to break-through to the town. The SADF forces attacked Cuito with the massive mm G-5 guns and staged attack after attack led by the crack 61st mechanized battalion, 32 Buffalo battalion, and later 4th SA Infantry group. On the 23rd March the battle reached a halt. In the words of 32 Batttalion commander, Colonel Jan Breytenbach. According to this view, the SADF failed in its intention and was successfully thwarted by the combined Angolan forces. The second school of thought maintains that the SADF had only limited objectives, namely, to halt the enemy at Cuito, to prevent its airstrip from being used, and then to retreat. Further action would have undermined negotiations between Cuba, Angola and South Africa, which began in London early in and continued in May in Brazzaville, Congo, and Cairo, Egypt. By this time, the South African government had already recognised the political change in Russia and the ending of the cold war. Jannie Geldenhuys, Chief of the SADF, stated that the most important battle in the campaign was when the Cubans were defeated at the Lomba River and Cuito Cuanavale was simply part of a mopping up operation after this battle. This view is also supported by Gen. Magnus Malan, South African minister of defence at the time. This was successfully accomplished. James and others. Whether it was a tactical retreat by the SADF or an Angolan forces victory one cannot contest that the battle at Cuito Cuanavale was a turning point that brought the border war to an end and led to the peace negotiations that saw the withdrawal of the SADF, MK and Cuban forces from Angola and Namibia and led to the independence of Namibia. The 20th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale was commemorated this year. Battle of Cuito Cuanavale | South African History Online People's Republic of Angola. South West African People's Organisation. African National Congress. The battle was the largest engagement of the Angolan conflict and the biggest conventional battle on the African continent since World War II. After weeks of preliminary skirmishes, the two armies met at the Lomba River on 6 September. Both sides claimed victory. Today, the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale is credited by some with ushering in the first round of trilateral negotiations , mediated by the United States , which secured the withdrawal of Cuban and South African troops from Angola and Namibia by Both superpowers tried to influence the outcome of the civil war through proxies. After the Carnation Revolution of April in Portugal, the new revolutionary government of Portugal let go of Portugal's African overseas possessions, including Angola. The Treaty of Alvor comprised a series of agreements between the three rebel factions and Portugal that were to pave the way to independence. Under its terms, a transitional government was formed, elections were scheduled for the end of the year, and 11 November was slated as Angola's independence day. Fighting between the three rebel factions started soon after the transitional government took office on 31 January , with each movement gaining control of their traditional areas of influence by mid the MPLA in the capital and central Angola, the FNLA in the north and UNITA in the south.