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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 ...
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) ...
Militêre professionalisme en die onderrig van Krygsgeskiedenis in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag : 'n historiese perspektief
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 1997)
From an occupational point of view, the study of military history serves three main purposes. Firstly, military history is used in a practical or utilitarian fashion to foster esprit de corps or to derive military lessons ...
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 ...
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 ...
South Africa -- History, Military
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2012)
The article presents a review of a book written by Jannie Geldenhuys titled "Ons was daar" (We were there)" published in 2011.
The secret South African project team : building strike craft in Israel, 1975-79
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2004)
Though the history of the South African Navy (SAN) only dates back to 1922, for most of its history it depended on Britain for warships. The British Royal Navy on the other hand had an unbroken involvement with maritime ...
Life in a South African household, 1909 - 1923 : changing patterns in leisure and servitude
(Taylor & Francis; UNISA Press, 2011-06)
Domestic history in South Africa is largely an unploughed field. Yet, for much of South Africa’s past, households were the places where concerns about class, gender and race intersected, at a very close, personal, level. ...
An Australian war correspondent in Ladysmith : the siege report of Donald Macdonald of the Melbourne Argus
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2000)
Some one hundred years ago, South Africa was torn apart by the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). To mark this cataclysmic event, Covos-Day is publishing a series of books. The first is a facsimile of Donald Macdonald's ...
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 ...