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NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa

01 January 1991

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NATO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa
libdoc March=1992

Author: Coker, Christopher
Publisher: MacMillan 1985, pp302
Notes & References, Bibliography, Index

Keywords: Military, NATO, Africa,

Part 1.
1. The past as prologue: The western alliance and Africa
1949-1974
The political dimension

2.The western powers and Africa 1949-1974
United Kingdom
France
United States

3. The North Atlantic Alliance and southern Africa 1949-1974
NATO and Portugal: the politics of ambiguity
The Anglo-South African connection
South Africa and SACLANT 1972-1974

4: NATO and Warsaw Pact Intervention, 1970-1978
The Soviet Union and the defence of Guinea 1970-1974
Soviet intervention in Angola 1974-1976
Soviet intervention in the Horn 1977-1978

5. France and western security, 1974-1983
Chad and French unilateralism 1969-1983
Franco-Belgian intervention in Zaire 1977-1978
French operations since 1978

6. NATO and South Africa 1974-1983
Southern African intervention in southern Africa

Part 2.
7. The Warsaw Pact and Africa 1959-1983
Eastern Europe and Africa's minerals
CMEA shortages

8. The Warsaw Pact and southern Africa 1974-1983
Southern Africa: the looking-glass world

9. The Warsaw Pact, East Germany and the threat of Western
intervention
GDR and southern Africa 1974-1978
GDR and the Warsaw Pact since 1978
Conclusion

Part 3.
10. Africa, the Western Alliance and the Soviet challenge
1961-1978 Bases and base rights
British arms sales to South Africa
Africa and Portugal
Franco-Belgian intervention in Shaba 1978
African attitudes to the Soviet intervention in Angola

11. Conclusion: NATO and the threat to Africa
The Alliance or the allies?

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