Faculty of Military Sciences

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The Faculty of Military Sciences is an academic-military institution that provides world class military contextualised higher education through teaching and learning, research, community interaction and professional military development.

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    The evolution of strategy : thinking war from antiquity to the present
    (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2011) Vrey, Francois
    The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present is another welcome addition to the field of War Studies with its particular focus on strategy. The publication adds to a growing body of literature that explores new historical sources to anchor the theoretical departure of the work further, and attends to the emergent dilemmas of the future role(s) of the armed forces. At a time when critical stances about the utility of armed forces seem to have entered a growth period, The Evolution of Strategy contributes several well-argued perspectives to acknowledge and comment on questions related to the utility of armed coercion in contemporary times.
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    Nature of military geography
    (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012) Bezuidenhout, Jacques; Galgano, Francis A.; Palka, Eugene J.
    The author presents a review of the book " Modern Military Geography" edited by Francis A. Galgano and Eugene J. Palka (2011), about the relationship between geography and military conflict.
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    Omega, oor en uit : die storie van ’n opstandige troep - François Verster
    (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2019) Kleynhans, Evert Philippus
    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 contends that it is often easier to respond to one man and his ‘war’, than to try to comprehend the overwhelming statistics associated with modern wars – especially in terms of the overwhelming numbers of soldiers, battles and casualties. For Hynes, it was important to “understand what war was like, and how it feels, we must … seek the reality in the personal witness of the men who were there”. As such, the recording of the personal narratives of soldiers are extremely important. These narratives, however, can be subdivided into two broad categories depending on differing needs – the need to report and the need to remember. Accounts that fall into the reporting category generally comprise letters, diaries and journals that are kept as the war unfolds. The value of these sources is varied, but in essence, they offer immediacy and directness in recording the personal experience of war. The second category comprises memoirs. Memoirs are indeed much more reflective in nature, in that they are written years after the actual experience of war. Moreover, memoirs give a selective overview of “what the young self did, what happened to him, what changed him”.
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    South Africa -- History, Military
    (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012) Scholtz, Leopold; Geldenhuys, Jannie
    The article presents a review of a book written by Jannie Geldenhuys titled "Ons was daar" (We were there)" published in 2011.