Angola’s Secret War

ANGOLA’S UNKNOWN WAR

I took my look at Angola’s unknown war in the summer of this year. At the end of September, the Angolan government, fortified with 450 Soviet battle tanks and more than one hundred Soviet airplanes, plus an unknown number of Soviet military advisors, launched a major offensive against its anti-Communist enemies. The Soviets clearly know what is at stake in Angola. It is time the West also knew.

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ANGOLA’S UNKNOWN WAR

I took my look at Angola’s unknown war in the summer of this year. At the end of September, the Angolan government, fortified with 450 Soviet battle tanks and more than one hundred Soviet airplanes, plus an unknown number of Soviet military advisors, launched a major offensive against its anti-Communist enemies. The Soviets clearly know what is at stake in Angola. It is time the West also knew.