Angolan Civil War

This paper aims to critically discuss the Angolan civil war and this paper shall also evaluate the arguments that were raised by Karl Van Clausewitz, when he argued that “war is a continuation of politics in another means”. Angola will be used as a case study, since some scholars have argued that the civil war that took place in Angola was indeed the continuation of politics, since they were many states that were involved in the war, giving aid to enhance the war, whereas they had their own national interest, such as the extraction of natural resources of Angola after war and forming some alliance with the newly democratic government which was going to come after the war was over.
Angola was once a Portuguese colony, whereby it economy and politics and natural resources was controlled and mostly extracted by the Portuguese, moreover the Angolan war had been viewed as another means of the continuation of the cold war that was between the two super powers namely Soviet Union (Russia) and United Sates Of America, nevertheless some commentators have argued that the cold war was only cold in these two super power nations only, yet in other part of the world, the war was physical and human rights were violated, as they supplied with heavy weapons to make the war more tense. The Angolan had been a war of such nature whereby the natives of Angola were in the struggle of their own freedom, yet the outsiders wanted to have access of the minerals resources of Angola, however Ethnic conflict, also came to play in the civil war of Angola, Cilliers (2002: 2) mentions that, describing the Angolan conflict during this period as a proxy war, not only reflects the extent to which global players sought to extend their influence and inhabit that of their opponent in far flung battlefields, but also to extent to which local leaders could mobilize external support for their own interest, that brings us to the understanding that the war in Angola was indeed the continuation of