Significant1966 – 1990 · 24 years

South African Border War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Southern Africa

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

24-year Cold War conflict in southern Africa with Cuban involvement.

Belligerents3

South Africa
Angola
Cuba

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 8

Operation Savannah1975–76
Operation Reindeer1978
Operation Protea1981
Operation Askari1983–84
Operation Modular1987
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale1987–88
Operation Hooper1987–88
Operation Packer1988

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: South African Border War (1966 – 1990). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/south-african-border-war · Sources & methodology