In September 1965, the first group of SWAPO insurgents (numbering only about seven men) moved across the thinly guarded Angola/SWA border and began attacking targets in northern …

The People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was the military wing of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). It fought against the South African Defence Force (SADF) …

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric …

2011年3月30日 · SWAPO emerged as the sole liberation movement in the early 1960s because it had the support of the Ovambo, the largest ethnic group in Namibia. More a military …

the twentieth anniversary of the start of the guerrilla war waged by the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) against the South African occupation forces, estimated at between …

1987年7月22日 · The SWAPO guerrillas, who have been fighting since 1966 for the independence of Namibia, or South-West Africa, have been reduced by an intensified South …

South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Political organization formed (1960) in South West Africa (now Namibia). SWAPO's aim was to achieve independence for Namibia, and to …

The paper examines the South African military strategy during the Namibian Border War from the 1960s to the 1980s, focusing on the unexpected electoral success of Swapo in the …

2017年1月17日 · The South African military would end up clashing in battle not only with Swapo’s Plan fighters, but also the Angolan armed forces and their Cuban allies, assisted by the Soviet …

SWAPO Captive reveals little-known narratives from ‘the other side’ of the Border War: life in a PLAN training camp, political education in the Eastern Bloc, and a foot soldier’s role in the war …