Guerrilla warfare in Namibia and associated implications for external military involvement.
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Authors
McCrary, Michael Shannon
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Schutz, Barry M.
Date of Issue
1979-03
Date
March 1979
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
There have been few unclassified attempts within the
United States, if any, to document the guerrilla war in
Namibia in its totality. This work presents a summary and
analysis of that struggle through December, 1978, focusing
on all aspects of the military and civil insurgency/counterinsurgency
situations. Additionally, Namibia's history, its
present social, economic, and political conditions, and the
militant attitudes of the various actors involved are examined
from the standpoint of tendencies and factors which
could stimulate violent conflict in the future. Salient
aspects of these discussions are integrated to form several
plausible political-military scenarios which include potentials
for near and long term violence and for the
involvement of external actors in that violence.
Namibia and the conflict surrounding its pending
independence play a primary role in the current and future
stability of southern Africa. This research is an attempt
to provide policy makers with additional perspective in
regard to the pursuit of that stability.
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.