Publisher's Synopsis
The role of foreign military intervention in African states has been a pervasive theme in the continent's political history since independence. Keith Somerville has witnessed many of these conflicts at first hand and has followed the complex chain of events that has enmeshed the Soviet Union, Cuba, Libya and South Africa in internal wars in Angola, Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, Somalia and elsewhere. He disentangles a complex skein of history, political ideology and geopolitics, to discern why states intervene, how their motives interact and evolve and what their actions mean for the present and future stability and security of the continent and the world.
