Angola: What Is Moscow Up To?

The Protracted Conflict

A The Kremlin’s Angolan op-eration is big-time. Recent estimates of $300 million for the cost of the past year’s activity are surely low. Fifteen thousand Cubans, a thousand or so Russians and Czechs, dozens of MiGs and helicopters, scores of tanks, hundreds of trucks and armored vehicles, thousands of rocket launchers, tens of thousands of rapid fire weapons, lots of ammunition and electronic equipment, plus the ships and aircraft and planning that brought these elements together at the right place at the right time—it all adds up to an expensive package.

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The Protracted Conflict

A The Kremlin’s Angolan op-eration is big-time. Recent estimates of $300 million for the cost of the past year’s activity are surely low. Fifteen thousand Cubans, a thousand or so Russians and Czechs, dozens of MiGs and helicopters, scores of tanks, hundreds of trucks and armored vehicles, thousands of rocket launchers, tens of thousands of rapid fire weapons, lots of ammunition and electronic equipment, plus the ships and aircraft and planning that brought these elements together at the right place at the right time—it all adds up to an expensive package.