若阿金·达·卢斯·库尼亚

Joaquim da Luz Cunha was a member of the senior military leadership that sustained the Portuguese Colonial War, alongside field commanders in Africa, while trying to hold a weakening imperial system together. Late-colonial command became entangled with regime survival, inter-service politics, and the growing recognition that military persistence could not indefinitely solve the political crisis of empire. His career illustrates how senior commanders manage imperial overstretch and how a military hierarchy begins to fracture when prolonged colonial warfare ceases to look strategically sustainable.