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In different times : the war of Southern Africa, 1966-1989
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019)This is the first attempt to bring together diverse scholars, using different lenses, to study South Africa’s Border War. As a book, it is critical in approach, provides deeper reflection, and focuses specifically on the ... -
African military geosciences : military history and the physical environment
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)This eight-chapter volume, African Military Geosciences: Military History and the Physical Environment, is a tour-de-force covering nearly 500 years of African military geosciences. It is a truly global book that reveals ... -
The African Standby Force : Quo Vadis?
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2017)Standby forces of the African Union are expected to deploy rapidly into high-intensity conflict zones. Inherently they stem from and are expected to work effectively with regional militaries of differing capabilities. But ... -
Civil defence and protective services in South Africa during World War Two, 1939–1945
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2019-11)During World War Two, South Africa inaugurated the Civilian Protective Services organisation as a civil defence effort to deal with, inter alia, the preventive and protective measures in defence of the civilian population ... -
Omega, oor en uit : die storie van ’n opstandige troep - François Verster
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2019)War narratives are in essence categorised as a distinct literary kind of its own. In his masterpiece The soldier’s tale: Bearing witness to modern war, Samuel Hynes argues that mankind is generally curious about war. Hynes ... -
The need for progress in an era of transformation : South African professional military education and military effectiveness
(Centre for Security Governance, 2018-04-20)The article explores the link between defence sector reform, military effectiveness, and education. During the post-1994 transition, defence sector reform in South Africa primarily involved the ‘transformation’ of the South ... -
Teetering on Africa’s development trajectories - a search for an African alternative
(2018-06)This article analyses the so-called key drivers of development in post-colonial Africa in the contexts of African leaders’ conceptualisation thereof. It exposes the divergent concepts of development that have appeared to ... -
The "apostles of terror" : South Africa, the East African campaign, and the Battle of El Wak
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the Union Defence Force (UDF) had to undergo a rapid transformation from an ageing defence force to one that could project offensive power across Africa. The formation ... -
Rise and fall of Jacob Zuma
(Brazilian Centre for Strategy & International Relations, 2018)In May 2014 I suddenly received a telephone call from the South African Embassy in Moscow, then an official invitation signed by Jacob Zuma followed: he wanted me to be present at his second inauguration. Unfortunately I ... -
Twenty years of democracy: An analysis of parliamentary oversight of the military in South Africa since 1994
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Prior to 1994, the practice of parliamentary oversight of the military in South Africa was extremely limited. The post-1994 shift to liberal democracy characterised by representativeness and constitutionalism ... -
Russia’s Hybrid War and its implications for Defence and Security in the United Kingdom
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)This article uses the example of Russia’s aggressive action against Ukraine as an example of a new form of contemporary war fighting, namely hybrid war, and discusses how Russia has been successful in exploiting vulnerabilities ... -
A manoeuvre warfare analysis of South Africa’s 1914-1915 German South West African campaign
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)The study reported in this article explored the nexus between military theory and history. Military theory attempts to quantify, qualify and illuminate the often unpredictable phenomenon of war. The article consists of two ... -
The axis and Allied Maritime Operations around Southern Africa, 1939-1945
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The majority of academic and popular studies on the South African participation in the Second World War historically focus on the military operations of the Union Defence Force in East Africa, North Africa, ... -
Airpower in the Union of South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2017)During the Great War, aircraft were used primarily for reconnaissance and artillery spotting. The Union of South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa (GSWA) allowed for South Africa's first employment ... -
A clash of military doctrine : Brigadier-General Wilfrid Malleson and the South Africans at Salaita Hill, February 1916
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2017)Brigadier-General Wilfrid Malleson (1866–1946) received his commission into the Royal Artillery in 1886 and transferred to the Indian Army in 1904. He was relatively inexperienced in combat having served on the staff of ... -
Collective security in Africa : the tension between theory and practice
(Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, 2017)The promotion of peace and security in Africa necessitates security cooperation between states and collective security remains a way to pursue it. This paper explores the changed meaning and application of the concept ... -
Thinking militaries or military thinking : the need for education in armed forces
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2007)The recently tabled parliamentary report on the South African Military Academy did not pose the most fundamental question concerning the existence of the Military Academy: why is it important that soldiers should become ... -
When history no longer suffice : towards uniform rules for armed conflicts
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)The key instruments of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols of 1977, divides armed conflict into two legal categories: international armed conflicts (IAC) or ... -
Military Law practitioners and academic discourse : a Sine Qua Non for developing military law
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)There has been limited development in South African military law since the inception of the Union Defence Force in 1912. Military law has mainly evolved as a way to enforce discipline in a force consisting of mostly ... -
Deneys Reitz and the First World War : an Introduction to the Department of Defence Archival Holdings
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)The historical sources detailing South Africa’s participation in the First World War are vast, and range from official publications to regimental histories, private diaries and first-hand accounts. The Department of Defence ...
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