Moscow's Strategy in Southern Africa: A Country by Country Review

Publication Date: July 1986

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): William Pascoe

Research Area: International relations

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Soviet Union

Abstract:

The Soviet Union is clear in its goals and strategy for southern Africa. It aims to take effective control of the region by supplying allied communist governments and revolutionary forces the weapons and advisers they need to take and maintain power. The U.S. and the West must be just as clear and clever in denying Moscow its goal.