Stephen L Weigert
Biographic Data
| ID | 234164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen L Weigert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Weigert |
| SIGNATURE | WEIGERT S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Department of State |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Quest for a Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare (1961–65)
M ao Zedong’s political/military career provided a definitive model to emulate for many Africans who aspired to take part in an anticolonial independence movement in the 1950s. China’s emergence as a world power and Mao’s eagerness to promote his views on Marxism, revolution, and economic development made Beijing a focal point for Third World political and military leaders seeking inspiration as well as material support. Beijing offered military …
Guerrilla and Conventional Warfare (1978–90)
International and regional intervention in the Angolan civil war added layers of complexity to the military strategy Luanda and its opponents employed. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA’s) renewed conduct of a Maoist-inspired guerrilla war challenged Luanda and its patrons to devise a counterinsurgency strategy. Neither Moscow nor Havana responded successfully, in part because they also faced a South African militar…
From Peace to War and Back (1991–2002)
As Angola emerged from the ideological morass of the Cold War, competing strategies of guerrilla warfare were eclipsed by debates concerning appropriate techniques of conflict resolution. External actors who had deployed combatants and intensified hostilities were replaced by foreign troops who arrived to monitor a cease-fire and support a peace process. As the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and UNITA/FALA (National Uni…
Conclusion
T he rapid end of hostilities after Jonas Savimbi’s death in February 2002 barely masked the fragility of the peace so solemnly announced several months later. Angolans chose amnesty over accountability as a guiding principle, unlike their counterparts in war-torn Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda. Emphasizing forgiveness rather than justice seemed shortsighted to those who insisted there could be no lasting peace without the punishment of those …
Asian Strategies and Angolan Realities (1966–77)
A ngola’s history is replete with examples of anticolonial wars that provided inspiration, if not strategies, to twentieth-century guerrillas. From 1500 to the early 1900s, Portuguese forces successfully countered uprisings throughout the Angolan countryside. Regardless of the Asian or Latin American inspired strategies they preferred, the foremost challenge faced by twentieth-century Angolan nationalists was to demonstrate to their fellow citize…
Angola
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War er
Up in Smoke
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Conclusion
The legacy of revivalist insurgencies in Africa, whether militarily successful or not, is frequently subject to revision. The Malgaches have been reluctant to recall or fully assess the 1947 rebellion. Those who died in the uprising were not officially recognized as ‘martyrs’ or ‘heroes’ of the nationalist cause until several years after independence in 1960. Independent Kenya’s attitude to the Mau Mau uprising seems subject to the fluctuating po…
Kenya
The Mau Mau insurgency sparked a decades-long debate over the appropriate leadership and ideology for a successful nationalist struggle. This controversy is still unresolved in many sub-Saharan African countries. The issues which military historians and students of African nationalism continue to debate use Mau Mau as the starting point for nearly all post-World War II assessments of independence movements and guerrilla forces. Many of the centra…
Congo/Zaire
The Kwilu Rebellion, which ravaged large areas of western Congo (Leopoldville) in the mid-1960s, reflected the complex synthesis of a political party, a charismatic personality and religiously inspired rural movements. Within weeks of its beginning, the insurgency appeared to have produced a potent mixture of ‘bulletproof’ combatants led by an equally invulnerable Maoist commander, Pierre Mulele. The aura surrounding Mulele and his supporters soo…
Madagascar
The 1947 Malgache uprising is often described as the first genuine nationalist insurgency in post-World War II African history. This characterization usually stems from an assumption that the Democratic Movement for the Malagasy Renovation (MDRM), was solely responsible for persuading its adherents to use force to gain the island’s independence. The MDRM was an organization whose structure resembled that of many modern political parties which wer…
Mozambique
Nationalist movements in Mozambique originally bore the trappings of contemporary political parties and modern ideologies. When Portugal refused to accommodate the ‘wind of change’ sweeping colonial Africa in the early 1960s, the advocates of Mozambican independence launched a guerrilla war inspired by the teachings and success of Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and the Algerian insurgents of the previous decade. When Mozambique finally achieved its independen…
Cameroon
The persistence of insurgency beyond a colonial era into the early years of independence was not unique to Kenya. Insurrection in Cameroon during the mid-1950s and early 1960s grew out of an anti-colonial campaign for independence. This struggle gradually evolved into the militant advocacy of a specific ideology nurtured by the Sino-Soviet camp as the Cold War began to spread to Africa in the late 1950s. For some historians, however, the war wage…
Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Introduction - Madagascar: the 1947-8 Rebellion - Kenya: the 'Mau-Mau' Insurgency (1952-60) - Cameroon: the UPC Insurrection (1956-70) - Congo (Leopoldville): the Kwilu Rebellion (1963-8) - Mozambique: From the NRM to Renamo (1977-92) - Conclusion - Footnotes - Bibliography - Index
Angola
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War er
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Introduction - Madagascar: the 1947-8 Rebellion - Kenya: the 'Mau-Mau' Insurgency (1952-60) - Cameroon: the UPC Insurrection (1956-70) - Congo (Leopoldville): the Kwilu Rebellion (1963-8) - Mozambique: From the NRM to Renamo (1977-92) - Conclusion - Footnotes - Bibliography - Index
Up in Smoke
Conclusion
The legacy of revivalist insurgencies in Africa, whether militarily successful or not, is frequently subject to revision. The Malgaches have been reluctant to recall or fully assess the 1947 rebellion. Those who died in the uprising were not officially recognized as ‘martyrs’ or ‘heroes’ of the nationalist cause until several years after independence in 1960. Independent Kenya’s attitude to the Mau Mau uprising seems subject to the fluctuating po…
Kenya
The Mau Mau insurgency sparked a decades-long debate over the appropriate leadership and ideology for a successful nationalist struggle. This controversy is still unresolved in many sub-Saharan African countries. The issues which military historians and students of African nationalism continue to debate use Mau Mau as the starting point for nearly all post-World War II assessments of independence movements and guerrilla forces. Many of the centra…
Congo/Zaire
The Kwilu Rebellion, which ravaged large areas of western Congo (Leopoldville) in the mid-1960s, reflected the complex synthesis of a political party, a charismatic personality and religiously inspired rural movements. Within weeks of its beginning, the insurgency appeared to have produced a potent mixture of ‘bulletproof’ combatants led by an equally invulnerable Maoist commander, Pierre Mulele. The aura surrounding Mulele and his supporters soo…
Madagascar
The 1947 Malgache uprising is often described as the first genuine nationalist insurgency in post-World War II African history. This characterization usually stems from an assumption that the Democratic Movement for the Malagasy Renovation (MDRM), was solely responsible for persuading its adherents to use force to gain the island’s independence. The MDRM was an organization whose structure resembled that of many modern political parties which wer…
Mozambique
Nationalist movements in Mozambique originally bore the trappings of contemporary political parties and modern ideologies. When Portugal refused to accommodate the ‘wind of change’ sweeping colonial Africa in the early 1960s, the advocates of Mozambican independence launched a guerrilla war inspired by the teachings and success of Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and the Algerian insurgents of the previous decade. When Mozambique finally achieved its independen…
Cameroon
The persistence of insurgency beyond a colonial era into the early years of independence was not unique to Kenya. Insurrection in Cameroon during the mid-1950s and early 1960s grew out of an anti-colonial campaign for independence. This struggle gradually evolved into the militant advocacy of a specific ideology nurtured by the Sino-Soviet camp as the Cold War began to spread to Africa in the late 1950s. For some historians, however, the war wage…
Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Introduction - Madagascar: the 1947-8 Rebellion - Kenya: the 'Mau-Mau' Insurgency (1952-60) - Cameroon: the UPC Insurrection (1956-70) - Congo (Leopoldville): the Kwilu Rebellion (1963-8) - Mozambique: From the NRM to Renamo (1977-92) - Conclusion - Footnotes - Bibliography - Index
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa
Up in Smoke
The Quest for a Strategy of Guerrilla Warfare (1961–65)
M ao Zedong’s political/military career provided a definitive model to emulate for many Africans who aspired to take part in an anticolonial independence movement in the 1950s. China’s emergence as a world power and Mao’s eagerness to promote his views on Marxism, revolution, and economic development made Beijing a focal point for Third World political and military leaders seeking inspiration as well as material support. Beijing offered military …
Guerrilla and Conventional Warfare (1978–90)
International and regional intervention in the Angolan civil war added layers of complexity to the military strategy Luanda and its opponents employed. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA’s) renewed conduct of a Maoist-inspired guerrilla war challenged Luanda and its patrons to devise a counterinsurgency strategy. Neither Moscow nor Havana responded successfully, in part because they also faced a South African militar…
From Peace to War and Back (1991–2002)
As Angola emerged from the ideological morass of the Cold War, competing strategies of guerrilla warfare were eclipsed by debates concerning appropriate techniques of conflict resolution. External actors who had deployed combatants and intensified hostilities were replaced by foreign troops who arrived to monitor a cease-fire and support a peace process. As the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and UNITA/FALA (National Uni…
Conclusion
T he rapid end of hostilities after Jonas Savimbi’s death in February 2002 barely masked the fragility of the peace so solemnly announced several months later. Angolans chose amnesty over accountability as a guiding principle, unlike their counterparts in war-torn Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda. Emphasizing forgiveness rather than justice seemed shortsighted to those who insisted there could be no lasting peace without the punishment of those …
Asian Strategies and Angolan Realities (1966–77)
A ngola’s history is replete with examples of anticolonial wars that provided inspiration, if not strategies, to twentieth-century guerrillas. From 1500 to the early 1900s, Portuguese forces successfully countered uprisings throughout the Angolan countryside. Regardless of the Asian or Latin American inspired strategies they preferred, the foremost challenge faced by twentieth-century Angolan nationalists was to demonstrate to their fellow citize…
Angola
This study is the first comprehensive assessment of warfare in Angola to cover all three phases of the nation's modern history: the anti-colonial struggle, the Cold War phase, and the post-Cold War er
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · African history and culture studies (11 works) · Citizen journalism (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Guerrilla warfare (8 works) · Independence (probability theory) (8 works)