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The Warsaw Pact, East Germany and the Threat of Western Intervention

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NATO, The Warsaw Pact and Africa

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Since Cuba’s intervention in Africa much has been written about its role. That interest is understandable. The presence of 20 000 combat troops and its operations in the Horn two years after the Angolan civil war demonstrated forceably the West’s inability to prevent military adventurism in a region of the world traditionally considered a Western sphere of influence.

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Coker, C. (1985). The Warsaw Pact, East Germany and the Threat of Western Intervention. In: NATO, The Warsaw Pact and Africa. Rusi Defence Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17884-1_9

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