ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impact of military globalization in the contemporary period in southern Africa, with particular emphasis on Angola and Mozambique. Although this chapter on military globalization in the contemporary era features a discussion of the wars in Angola and Mozambique, demonstrating the interaction of local, regional, and global dynamics will necessarily involve some examination of struggles in the other formerly white-ruled territories as well. The chapter analyzes the causes and consequences of conflicts in Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of the region in three periods since World War II: before independence, after independence during the Cold War, and after the Cold War ended. It concludes with a brief description below of the somewhat complex events that drew both Angola and Zimbabwe into Africa's largest war ever, the conflict waged primarily in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that promotes what some analysts call warlord politics.
