{"id":34889,"date":"2020-05-26T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T22:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=34889"},"modified":"2020-05-26T17:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T22:29:37","slug":"know-your-cold-war-history-operation-protea-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/26\/know-your-cold-war-history-operation-protea-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Cold War History: Operation Protea and Beyond\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/hennin28.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=info&amp;w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Operation Protea was launched on 23 August 1981. Its objectives were to destroy the South-West Africa People\u2019s Organisations (SWAPO) command and training center at Xangongo as well as to destroy its logistic bases at Xangongo and Ongiva. The South African forces reached Ongiva on 26 August 1981 and attacked the combined SWAPO\/FAPLA forces dug in\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2020\/05\/27\/operation-protea-and-beyond\/\">Operation Protea and Beyond\u2026 \u2014 Weapons and Warfare<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Protea was launched on 23 August 1981. Its objectives were to destroy the South-West Africa People\u2019s Organisations (SWAPO) command and training center at Xangongo as well as to destroy its logistic bases at Xangongo and Ongiva. The South African forces reached Ongiva on 26 August 1981 and attacked the combined SWAPO\/FAPLA forces dug in\u00a0[\u2026]&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2711,7725,2770,5940,475,478,479,6096,1894,17,1895,1898],"tags":[8233,7840],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}