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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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A proposed typology of the military bully
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)Workplace bullying is a pervasive problem faced by organisations globally. Although progress has been made in augmenting our understanding of the phenomenon within diverse work settings, the military remains one work ...
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A critical analysis of the impact of water on the South African campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)The South African campaign in German South West Africa (GSWA) during the First World War depended largely on the access, availability and control of all water sources in the operational area. The Union Defence Force (UDF) ...
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On Strategy: Stategic theory and contemporary African armed conflicts
(SUN MeDIA Stellenbosch, 2010)The conference theme On strategy: Strategic theory and contemporary African armed conflicts, jointly presented by Stellenbosch University in South Africa and the faculty of the Royal Danish Defence College, attempts to ...
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Maritime security in Southern African waters
(SUN MeDIA, 2009)This publication includes papers from academic experts and practitioners addressing topics from Port Security to the economic dimensions of maritime security, from Asymmetrical War and Terror at Sea to the African Experience ...
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South Africa and the search for strategic effect in the Central African Republic
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)This article provides a critical assessment from a strategic perspective of the South African military involvement in the Central African Republic that culminated in the Battle of Bangui. The strategic assessment was aimed ...
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South Africa and the Korean War, the politics of involvement
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)The Union of South Africa’s military involvement in the Korean War was an exercise in political maneuvering as opposed to one of any great military significance.[i] South Africa’s new right wing Nationalist Afrikaner ...
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Good hunting : German submarine offensives and South African countermeasures off the South African coast during the Second World War, 1942-1945
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)By the latter half of 1942, the High Command of the German U-boats (BdU) realised that the ‘sinking results’ of the North Atlantic had decreased immensely. The successes of the Allied anti-submarine operations in the North ...
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Recording the Great War : military archives and the South African official history programme, 1914-1939
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)The First World War marked a revolt against the traditional mode of official history as conceived and written by the General Staffs and taught at the Staff Colleges. After 1918, the publics in various countries, having ...
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South African propaganda agencies and the battle for public opinion during the Second World War, 1939–1945
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)South Africa’s entry into the Second World War in 1939 was complex. The Smuts government lacked nation-wide support and experienced hostile reactions from opponents of its war policy. It was also subjected to Nazi propaganda ...
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A cold relationship: United States foreign policy towards South Africa, 1960 – 1990
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The diplomatic relations between the United States (USA) and South Africa (SA) had its birth in 1799 with the establishing of a consulate in Cape Town. Over the next two centuries the political dealings ...
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South African defence in the age of total war, 1900–1940
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-05)Based largely on a study of official archives and private papers held in South Africa and the United Kingdom, this article sketches the political-strategic landscape on which the armed forces of South Africa operated between ...
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From the editors
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)The role of the military in the making of South Africa has always been a contentious issue and has recently again been highlighted when the military was deployed in certain South African neighbourhoods in support of the ...
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Managing morale on the battlefield : a psychological perspective
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)From historical writings to current day, morale has always been regarded as a major determinant of success on the battlefield. The management of morale is thus also important in the South African National Defence Force ...
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Recce : small team missions behind enemy lines
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)Recce: Small team missions behind enemy lines is an autobiography by Colonel (retired) Koos Stadler. The book mainly covers his career as a Special Forces officer and reconnaissance soldier during South Africa’s so-called ...
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Battle on the Lomba, 1987 the day a South African armoured battalion shattred Angola’s last mechanised offensive : a crew commander’s account
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)Writing about the Namibian Border War and South African involvement in the Angolan Civil War is difficult. Many South Africans have been conscripted or willingly served in the military at the time and find it difficult to ...
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Theoretical approaches in international relations : the South African military as a foreign policy instrument
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)The utility of theoretical approaches in international relations can be found in the fact that such approaches provide ‘lenses’ that can be applied to enhance our understanding of the social dynamics of the world we live ...
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Two perspectives on the recent war in Iraq
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)The three books discussed here can all be classified as memoirs or even as auto-ethnographies. The two authors relate how they experienced the recent armed conflict in Iraq. The narratives of both authors include detailed ...
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Second law analysis for MHD permeable channel flow with variable electrical conductivity and asymmetric Navier slips
(De Gruyter, 2014-11)The inherent irreversibility in a steady hydromagnetic permeable channel flow of a conducting fluid with variable electrical conductivity and asymmetric Navier slip at the channel walls in the presence of induced electric ...
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Testing and implementation of a transportable and robust radio-element mapping system
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2015-09-25)Gamma ray spectroscopy has been successfully applied as a survey tool in the fields of morphology, geology and mineral exploration. Gamma ray surveys are regularly done at ground level, which frequently requires transecting ...
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Last night I dreamed of peace : an extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)Many people’s view about war and its impact was changed by a woman named Dang Thuy Tram. Her diaries, which she kept as a practicing medical doctor during the Vietnam War, were published some forty odd years after her ...
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The South African military in transition : part 2 - from strategic culture to strategic reality
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)The analysis reported here focused on the dynamic interaction between a preferred strategic management model of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) on the one hand, and the SANDF’s acquired strategic culture ...
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The South African military in transition : part 1 - from strategy formulation to strategy formation
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2014)By 2013, sufficient evidence had become publicly available to confirm what defence analysts had been suspecting for a while now: the military effectiveness of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is deficient. ...
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Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk : two South African military disasters revisited 1941-1942
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are the largest disasters suffered by South Africa in its military history. Yet, despite their enormity, Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk are little understood and hardly remembered. South ...
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