How come no one talks about this anymore? 

It used to be big as fuck, I remember arguing with cubans and tankies who were claiming that the cubans won despite them failing all their objectives and taking casualties that makes russia look competent.

Castro literally had the general in charge of their operations executed after the war.

This video covers most of the key reasons why it is argued the cubans lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RefL01AipAU [Embed]

because normies can't comprehend just how kino African warfare can be

YT bois can't handle warfare. Apartheid fash got btfo and YTs in America don't want to talk about it because they don't want POC and leftist allies realize how bigly we can beat them. Knowledge is suppressed to keep everyone ignorant. I just got here from tiktok btw.

War wasn't as interesting as the other contemporary wars happening or the Rhodesian conflict before it, and not a lot of footage came out of it so no one really cared.

>>58053901 (OP)

That battle and the whole war really made me appreciate the Panhard AML and the South African equivalent and also IFVs with 90mm/76mm cannons. That fucking AML and the South African copy were killing machines, absolutely ridiculous.

any book reccs on this

Don't know any good ones about this battle in particular but if you like learning about african warfare you'd probably like "Dancing in the glory of monsters"

There used to be a kino video about Cuito Cuanavale set to Battle Hymn by Manowar on youtube from like 2008, but its gone.

>>58053901 (OP)

chuds lost, democracy won

I got some steam friends who participated in that conflict. I've met a few SA that took part in the conflict l they come over here and help us farm.

Where do you live?

He's talking shit m8. I'm South African. My entire fucking life I have not met a single boomer who participated in the battle. The SADF commitment was one (1) brigade, out of 20 000 guys in theater and an army of 600 000. 



The closest is one of my HS friends dad's who was a tanker and got conscripted just in time to join the mbt company that participated in the battle after the fact. 

>I was in HS 15 years ago

Arkansas, the SA been coming over here in mass last few years but we've had a few around here since the 80's. My steam buddy first name is Tjaka and he still lives in SA. His profile pic is in uniform from back then.

Oh, and the only thing that guys dad ever said was 

>All the tanks were fucked from driving 250 km through thick bush 

>Everyone was really sun tanned 

>Everyone was really stoked to be out of Angola. 

>Everyone thought they were hot shit because they were the only guys in the armored corps with a crease in their blouse (you iron in a crease in the back of your uniform shirt for each tour you do and it was the first time tanks were used). 



I have other stories, my dad tell as good one about blowing a bridge (he was an engineer) and I have an uncle who was a rifleman in the early parts of the war in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe and a family friend (RIP) who was a Selous. 



Also have a funny story about South African submarines bamboozling Germans.

I didn't say battle you fucking nigger I said conflict.
