Centre for Military Studies

On controversies, battles, raids and elusive truth : opposing perspectives on Cassinga, 1978

Liebenberg, Ian (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2019)

The South African attack in 1978 on Cassinga, an alleged South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) base during the ‘Border War’, remains highly controversial. For some, Operation Reindeer, as it was called, was an ...
Colombia - not so unusual after all : a case study on the transnational making of the boundary between 'defence' and 'public security'

Viana, Manuela Trindade (African Sun Media, 2020)

Colombia is often mentioned as an anomaly within the expected framing of defence and public security, an anomaly that arises from a faulty division of labour between the police and the military. In this chapter, I offer ...