Kaúlza de Arriaga

Infobox Military Person
name= Kaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga
lived= January 18 1915 - February 2 2004
placeofbirth= Porto
placeofdeath= Lisbon


nickname=
allegiance= Portuguese Army
serviceyears= 1935 - 1974
rank= Brigadier General
commands=
unit=
battles=Portuguese Colonial War
awards=Officer of the Order of Aviz, Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit of Brazil, the Legion of Merit of the United States of America, Grand Cross and Officer of the Order of Christ, Officer of the Légion d'honneur of France, Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) and the Medal of Aeronautical Merit of the Portuguese Air Force, Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Kaúlza de Oliveira de Arriaga, OA, GCC, OC, OIH (Porto, Sé, January 18, 1915 - Lisbon, February 2, 2004) was a Portuguese Brigadier General, writer, professor and politician. He was Secretary of State (junior minister) of the Air Force between 1953 and 1955 and commander of the Terrestrial Forces in Moçambique from 1969 until 1974 during the Mozambican War of Independence.

Ancestry

He was a son of Manuel dos Santos Lima de Arriaga Nunes (Lisbon, Santa Isabel, October 11, 1885 - Vila Nova de Gaia, Arcozelo, September 19, 1940), a sculptor and son of a medical doctor from Pico Island, Azores, and his Portuguese Brazilian wife, and wife (m. Porto, June 20, 1914) Felicidade Eugénia Martins de Oliveira (Porto, Sé, August 11, 1895 - Lisbon, São Julião, July 16, 1987), daughter and granddaughter of goldsmiths. ["Costados Alentejanos", II, António Luís de Torres Cordovil Pestana de Vasconcelos, Edição do Autor, Évora 2006, N.º 33]

Career

Arriaga completed a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Porto and then volunteered for the Portuguese Army on November 1 1935. Taking a military and civil engineering course in the Military Academy which he graduated from in 1939, he was later assigned to the general staff of the Portuguese Institute of Military Studies. Here he petitioned for reforms to the conscription system, as well as training and the integration of paratroopers into the Portuguese Air Force.

Arriaga commanded as the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces the Portuguese forces in the Mozambican conflict from 1969 until 1974, taking over from General Augusto dos Santos and organising the Operation Nó Górdio ("Gordian Knot") in 1970.

Arriaga was a major politic figure in the régime before the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974 in Lisbon, holding a number of public positions such as Head of the Ministry of Defense Cabinet, Secretary of State for Aeronautics, Professor of the Institute of High Military Studies, President of the Nuclear Energy Joint Commission and Executive President of the oil company Angol SA. After the revolution he was the president of an extremely right wing political party during elections in 1980.

Decorations

Arriaga received a number of awards and citations during his career, including Officer of the Order of Aviz, Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit of Brazil, the Legion of Merit of the United States of America, Grand Cross and Officer of the Order of Christ, Officer of the Légion d'honneur of France, Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) and the Medal of Aeronautical Merit of the Portuguese Air Force. He was also a Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. He died from Alzheimers in 2004, in Lisbon.

Family

He married in Reguengos de Monsaraz, at the Chapel of o Monte de São Mamede, on May 19, 1955 Maria do Carmo Fernandes Formigal, born in Lisbon, Lapa, on August 27, 1932, Dame Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, daughter of Mário Formigal (Lisbon, Lapa, December 15, 1899 - Lisbon, Santa Isabel, January 11, 1954), a Landowner and son of another, and wife (m. Lisbon, August 1922) Maria Adelaide Rosado Fernandes (Cascais, September 13, 1903 - Lisbon, September 30, 1981), of a family of farmers and Landowners in Évora, Alto Alentejo, by whom he had five children, including the second wife of Pedro Santana Lopes. [http://www.geneall.net/P/per_page.php?id=143633]

Published works

* " Atomic Energy " - 1949
* " the Portuguese National Defense in Last the 40 years and the Future " - 1966
* " Some Nuclear Questions in Portugal " - 1969
* " The Portuguese Answer " - 1973
* " Courage, Tenacity and Faith " - 1973
* " the National Conjuncture and My Position before the Moment Portuguese Politician " - 1976
* " In the way of the Solutions of the Future " - 1977
* " Africa - the Betrayed Victory " (co-author) - 1977
* " War and Politics - On behalf of the Decisive Truth, Years " (two editions) - 1987
* " Global Strategy " - 1988
* " Syntheses " (two editions) - 1992
* " Maastricht - 1992

ee also

* Gordian Knot Operation
* Portuguese Colonial War
* Mozambican War of Independence

References

External links

* [http://www.cidadevirtual.pt/k-arriaga/ Kaúlza de Arriaga - website with published works and biography]