Counterinsurgency in Africa : the Portuguese way of war, 1961-1974
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Counterinsurgency in Africa : the Portuguese way of war, 1961-1974
(Contributions in military studies, no. 167)
Greenwood Press, 1997
- :hardcover : alk. paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first comprehensive account in English of how the Portuguese Armed Forces prepared for and conducted a distant counterinsurgency campaign in its African possessions with very limited resources, choosing to stay and fight despite the small odds for success. The Portuguese military crafted its doctrine and implemented it to match the guerrilla strategy of protracted war, and in doing so, followed the lessons gleaned from the British and French experiences in small wars. The Portuguese approach to the conflict was distinct in that it sought to combine the two-pronged national strategy of containing the cost of the war and of spreading the burden to the colonies with the solution on the battlefield. It describes how Portugal defined and analyzed its insurgency problem in light of the available knowledge on counterinsurgency, how it developed its military policies and doctrines in this context, and how it applied them in the African colonial environment. The uniqueness of its approach is highlighted through a thematic military analysis of the Portuguese effort and a comparison with the experiences of other governments fighting similar contemporaneous wars.
Table of Contents
Foreword by General Bernard E. Trainor
A Remarkable Feat of Arms
Commitment to the Ultramar
O Exército na Guerra Subversiva: Portuguese Counterinsurgency Doctrine on the Eve of War
Portuguese Organization, Education, and Training for Counterinsurgency
Portuguese Africanization of Counterinsurgency
Portuguese Intelligence Network in Counterinsurgency
Portuguese Approach to Mobility in Counterinsurgency
Portuguese Social Operations and Aldeamentos
Selected Aspects of Logistical Operations
The Portuguese Way
Selected Bibliography
Index
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