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Socialist State Strategy and Arms in Southern Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

George Shepherd Jr.
George Shepherd Jr.*
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University of Denver
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Extract

There are many prevailing notions and myths about the strategy and objectives of the Socialist powers and their associated socialist states in Southern Africa. A great deal of them are based upon the fears of rival powers and the propaganda of those ruling interests and minorities who suddenly now find themselves face to face, not with the in-effectual guerrilla movements they have discounted, but with real and basic international power.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 9 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1979 , pp. 47 - 51
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979 

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Notes

1. Expressed by Patrick Wal, M.P., et al. in The Indian Ocean and The Threat to the West, Wall, Patrick (ed.), London: (Institute for the Study of Conflict, Stacey International) 1975 Google Scholar.

2. George T. Yu, “China’s Impact,” Problems of Communism Jan.-Feb. 1958. He quotes one Chinese source “in its ambitious scramble for world hegemony, the Soviet Union seeks to take over Africa for the purpose of cutting sea-transport lanes, the lifelines of West Europe and the United States.” p. 46.

3. This has been specified in Arms Trade Registers: The Arms Trade with the Third World. Stockholm: (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) 1975, and up-dated in the SIPRI YearBook, 1978.

4. See SIPRI YearBook and World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1967-1976, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, D.C.: (U.S. Govt. Print. Off.) 1978, p. 159.

5. Wilkinson, Tony in Southern Africa: The New Politics of Revolution, by Davidson, Basil, Slovo, Joe and Wilkinson, A. R., London: (Penguin Books) 1977, discusses this aid, pp. 232–246 Google Scholar.

6. Colin Legum in “The Gorsher Strategy,” 77ie Observer, (London) March 20, 1977.

7. Zdenek Cervenka in “Cuba in Africa” in Africa, Contemporary Record, 1976/77 discusses these diaspora as well as class interests.

8. Roger Morris, “The Proxy War in Angola,” The New Republic, Jan. 31, 1976. Also, the Congressional Pike Committee Report of the CIA, suppressed but published in The Village Voice, Feb. 20, 1976.

9. Stockwell, John in In Search of Enemies, New York: (W. W. Norton and Co.) 1978 Google Scholar, confirms the fact that the South African invasion in late 1975 preceded the arrival of the main body of Cuban troops in early 1976, pp. 231-232.

10. Murray Morder, “Pondering Covert Aid to Africa,” Washington Post, May 19, 1978.

11. Secretary of State Vance’s address in Atlantic City, New York Times, June 21, 1978.

12. SIPRI YearBook 1978, pp. 258-279.

13. Africa News, October 23. 1978. p. 6.

14. SIPRI YearBook, 1978.

15. “Rhodesia, War Within War,” Africa Confidential, June 9, 1978.

16. A point made by Colin Legum and Zdenek Cervenka, op. cit.

17. Julius Nyerere, “Foreign Troops in Africa” in Africa Report, July-August, 1978, pp. 10-14.