Objective
Quileve Cahama Cuvelai Luanda Cassinga Caiundo AngolaOperation Askari, launched on 6 December 1983, was the SADF's sixth large-scale cross-border operation into Angola and was intended to disrupt the logistical support and command & control capabilities of PLAN (SWAPO's military wing) in order to suppress a large-scale incursion into South West Africa that was planned for the beginning of 1984. The FAPLA army of the Angolan governing party MPLA also became involved in some of the skirmishes.
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