Nº 2495 - Dezembro de 2009
O Tratado de Lisboa, depois de alguns acidentes de percurso ultrapassados (mas sem garantias de que outros não poderão surgir…), entra em execução e marca uma vontade política de afirmar a Europa no ambiente estratégico global e de concertar acções para ultrapassar uma crise actual e crises futuras. Não se consubstancia uma federação de estados, como alguns pretenderiam, mas atinge-se um acordo de governos.
During the African Campaigns that Portugal fought between 1961 and 1974, it used many of the elements of national power aside from the military to neutralize the nationalist movements by stalemating them within their sanctuaries, diluting their leadership, or isolating them in the barren wastelands that make up much of Africa. Here we shall examine this strategy of neutralisation, its application in Angola specifically, and the degree of success that it enjoyed. A key part of this strategy was gaining cooperation of neighbours, friend or foe, willing or reluctant, to achieve mutually beneficial economic and security results that could cause a subordination of ideological differences and a rein on common insurgent activity, and in effect, push the Angolan defensive perimeter away from its borders.
