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Congo Unravelled - Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 1960-68 (Paperback)
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Congo Unravelled - Military Operations from Independence to the Mercenary Revolt 1960-68 (Paperback)
Series: Africa@War
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Post-independence events in the Republic of the Congo are a
veritable Gordian knot. The ambitions of Congolese political
leaders, Cold War rivalry, Pan- Africanism, Belgium's continued
economic interests in the country's mineral wealth, and the
strategic perceptions of other southern African states all
conspired to wrack Africa's second largest country with uprisings,
rebellions and military interventions for almost a decade. Congo
Unravelled solves the intractable complexity of this violent period
by dispassionately outlining the sequence of political and military
events that took place in the troubled country. The reader is
systematically taken through the first military attempts to
stabilize the country after independence and the two distinguishing
military campaigns of the decade - the United Nations military
operations (Operation des Nations Unies au Congo, or ONUC) to end
the secession of the Katanga Province, and the Dragon Operations
led by Belgian paratroopers, supported by the US Air Force,
launched to end the insurgency in the east of the country - are
chronicled in detail. Finally, the mercenary revolt - an event that
tainted the reputation of the modern mercenary in Africa - is
described. Lesser known military events - Irish UN forces cut off
from the outside world by Katangese gendarmes and mercenaries, and
a combined military operation in which Belgian paratroopers were
dropped from US Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and supported by
a mercenary ground force to achieve humanitarian ends - go far
toward resolving the enigma surrounding post-independence Congo.
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