Topic summary
FAPLA
Extracted from the Wikipedia article People's Armed Forces of Liberation of Angola.
Combat performance
FAPLA fought UNITA and the South African Defence Force constantly from the 1970s, part of the Angolan Civil War and the South African Border War, including during their 1975-76 invasion, Operation Savannah, and Operation Sceptic (1980), with the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-1988) being the largest land battle in Africa since the Second World War.