An edition of Brown waters of Africa (2012)

Brown waters of Africa

Portugese riverine warfare,1961-1974

Brown waters of Africa
John P. Cann, John P. Cann
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An edition of Brown waters of Africa (2012)

Brown waters of Africa

Portugese riverine warfare,1961-1974

During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into the Atlantic Alliance. By 1960, when other colonial powers were abandoning their empires, Portugal made the decision to cling to its possessions, as they had been Portuguese for over 400 years. Without them Portugal saw itself as only a small European country, whereas with them, it would be a great nation. Portugal ultimately would fight a 13-year debilitating war against various nationalist movements in Africa to retain its possessions. By the mid-1950s, it became apparent to the Portuguese Navy that it would fight in Africa, and it began to make preparations. Ultimately, it would perform a near wholesale conversion from the blue water or oceanic navy that supported NATO to a brown water or riverine one to fight in Africa. This is the story of that conversion and the great "battle of the rivers" in Africa. This naval reorientation was a remarkable achievement, in that Portugal not only learned to fight a new kind of war, it built a navy to accomplish this and did so while shouldering its NATO commitments. The Portuguese Navy in developing a specialized naval force clearly foresaw the paramount economic, military, and psychological importance of controlling the interior waterways of Africa, for the infrastructure there was universally primitive. While there was generally a road network radiating from the colonial capital, the primary routes used clandestinely by insurgents were chiefly the waterways. The job of the navy was to foreclose enemy use of these lines of communication, and this it did with great success.

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Pages
274

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Brown waters of Africa: Portugese riverine warfare, 1961-1974
2013, Helion & Company Ltd
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Cover of: Brown waters of Africa
Brown waters of Africa: Portugese riverine warfare,1961-1974
2012, Helion & Company Ltd.
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-267) and index.

Published in
Solihull
Series
Helion studies in military history -- no. 17

Classifications

Library of Congress
DT36.7 .C354 2012, DT36.5, DT36.7 .C36 2013, DT

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 274 pages
Number of pages
274

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30960798M
ISBN 13
9781908916563
LCCN
2013431497
OCLC/WorldCat
805020825, 855351364

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