Foreward
William T. Stoakley
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The World of Defense Intelligence
Part One: Non-Combat Realities
1. The Making of a Defense Intelligence Analyst
Growing Up in the 1950s
The Great Leap into Sub-Saharan Africa
Two Out of Three is Not Bad!
2. Assignment EUCOM J-2, 1977-1980
Hitting the Ground Running at EUCOM
The EUCOM Experience Pays Dividends
Generals Haig and Huyser and the Soft Underbelly of NATO
Traveling through Africa
3. The War for Resources-and Briefind VIP?s
Unfavourable Pairings
Out of Africa
Africa Just Doesn?t Make the Cut
?Something New Is Always Coming Out of Africa? -Pliny the Elder
What We Have Learned
Briefing People in High Places
4. Threats to International Security: Optimists versus Pessimists
The Optimists
The Pessimists
The Bottom Line
Domestic Analogies
Part Two: African Wars I Have Known
5. Counter-insurgency in Africa
Learning on the Job
Insurgency in Southern Rhodesia, 1965-1980
Lancaster House Marks a New Beginning
6. Civil War in Africa
The Angolan Civil War, Phase One, 1975-1976
The Angolan Civil War, Phase Two, 1980-1992
The Angolan Civil War, Phase Three, 199s-2002
7. South Africa; The White Redoubt
South Africa?s Evolving Defense Strategy, 1960s-1980s
Surprise in Angola
The Receding White Redoubt
South Africa?s Defense Industry
Apartheid South Africa: A Challenge for U.S. Intelligence
8. Mozambique: The RENAMO War, 1978-1992
RENAMO: From an Insurgent Seed, a Monster Grows
U.S. Policy Slightly Out of Tune
The War Winds Down: The Times They Were a-Changin?
Photo Gallery
9. Two Surprising East African Wars
The Ogaden War, 1977-1991
Tanzania-Uganda War, 1978-1979
10. Two Antagonistic Regimes Collapse
Somalia?s Civil War, 1980s-1991
The Ethiopian Civil War: Collapse of the Mengistu Regime, 1988-1991
11. Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan in the 1990s
UN and U.S. Intervention in Somalia, 1992-1995
The Ethiopia-Eritrea Border War, 1998-2000: All in the Family
War in Sudan: The Enigma on the Nile
12. Two Improbable Conflicts: Zaire (Congo) and Chad
The Shaba I and Shaba II Incursions into Zaire, 1977-1978
Chad?s "Toyota Wars" 1986-1987
13. The Great Lakes Crises: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo
Rwanda?s Civil War and Genocide Crisis, 1990&ndashl;1994
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Implodes, 1996-2002
Burundi?s Civil War, 1993-2001
14. Vicious Civil Conflicts in West Africa
Liberia?s Civil War, 1989-1997
Sierra Leone?s Civil War, 1991-2001
15. African Wars I Did Not Get to Know
The Congo Crisis
The Nigerian Civil War
Other African Conflicts
Other Wars Since Independence
Epilogue
Glossary of Acronyms
Bibliography
Index
