L'armée portugaise est également mobilisée au Mozambique qui cherche à s'émanciper de la colonisation portugaise au même moment que l'Angola. These rulers then sent enslaved Africans to the Portuguese ports, or to forts in Africa from where they were exported. Some analysts see the "According to historical researchers like José Freire Antunes, U.S. President In reality, the relation of mainland Portuguese to their overseas possessions was that of colonial administrator to a subservient colony. However, they also used small arms of U.S. manufacture (such as the .45 Rapid-fire arms in use with the insurgents included the The guerrillas' AK-47 rifles and such variants were highly thought of by many Portuguese soldiers, as they were more mobile than the m/961 (G3), while permitting the user to deliver a heavy volume of automatic fire at the closer ranges typically encountered in bush warfare.Guerrillas in all the various revolutionary movements used a variety of mines, often combining If the insurgents planned to confront the Portuguese openly, one or two heavy machine guns would be sited to sweep the ditch and other likely areas of cover.

La guerre débute immédiatement après l'indépendance obtenue du Portugal. Pendant pratiquement 15 années le Portugal va tenter de regagner le contrôle perdu après les premières révoltes de 1960. Portugal had employed regular native troops (Throughout the war period Portugal had to deal with increasing dissent, arms embargoes and other punitive sanctions imposed by most of the international community.

In a relatively short time, the PAIGC had succeeded in reducing Portuguese military and administrative control of the territory to a relatively small area of Guinea.

L'Angola portugais ou simplement Angola est le nom générique donné à la colonie, province ultramarine, puis État portugais présent sur la côte puis sur la totalité de l'actuel Angola. They achieved good progress in their first year of independence.

117–118.Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. Ancienne colonie portugaise, l’Angola est devenue indépendante en 1975 après 15 années d’un conflit meurtrier. The country's expenditure on the armed forces ballooned since the beginning of the war in 1961.

The Portuguese Way of War 1961–1974 by John P. Cann – A Guerra de África 1961–1974 by José Freire Antunes – Author of Review: Douglas L. Wheeler, Tetteh Hormeku – Programme Officer with Third World Network's Africa Secretariat in Accra, Third World Resurgence No.89, January 1998, A «GUERRA» 3º Episódio – «Violência do lado Português»PAIGC, Jornal Nô Pintcha, 29 November 1980: In a statement in the party newspaper Afonso, Aniceto and Gomes, Carlos de Matos, Guerra Colonial (2000), Afonso, Aniceto and Gomes, Carlos de Matos, Guerra Colonial (2000), Afonso, Aniceto and Gomes, Carlos de Matos, Guerra Colonial (2000), World Development Indicators 2007, Portugal economic growth rate data set, retrieved 26 June 2010 Some Portuguese soldiers decapitated rebels and impaled their heads on stakes, pursuing a policy of "The Portuguese Army steadily pushed the UPA back across the border into Congo-Kinshasa in a brutal counteroffensive that also displaced some 150,000 Bakongo refugees, taking control of Pedra Verde, the UPA's last base in northern Angola, on 20 September 1961.By most accounts, Portugal's counterinsurgency campaign in Angola was the most successful of all its campaigns in the Colonial War.Another factor was internecine struggles between three competing revolutionary movements – FNLA, MPLA, and UNITA – and their guerrilla armies. Les opérations militaires systématiques menées par les colons portugais contre les rebelles dans le Nord de l'Angola ne débutèrent qu'en Pour regagner le contrôle de sa colonie, la métropole a engagé des effectifs militaires importants, avec près de 65 000 soldats portugais envoyés en réponse au soulèvement de 1961.