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This article explains how the Ferreira Raid in November 1906 reflected tensions between the British, Boers and Germans after the South African War. It describes the raid, the Cape Mounted Police response, the trial, and the claim that the episode was a quixotic rehearsal for the 1914 Afrikaner rebellion.
This article describes the South West Africa Territorial Force’s 1 SWA Specialist Unit (1 SWASpes), a unique counter-insurgency unit during the Border War. It says the unit combined horse-mounted infantry, motorcycles, trackers and specialized dogs, and was formed in 1977 at Oshivelo.
This foreword introduces a comprehensive eBook by Dr Willem Steenkamp on South Africa’s negotiated transition to a non-racial democracy. It argues that the outcome was shaped less by individual weakness than by systemic dysfunction in national security decision-making, the conflict between military and political strategies, and the eventual necessity of negotiation.
How and why STARLINK has become a buzz word not only in the age of Strategic Infrastructure and Interconnectivity...
How and why observers, policymakers, and analysts interpret the same events in sharply divergent ways...
This biographical narrative traces the 38‑year career of Colonel Riana Nel in the South…
Kenya: A fascinating article on the threatened settler insurrection of 1923 - and its…
Casspir Mk II B: South Africa's Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP)
"The political and national security situation in South Africa and Africa is difficult to…
NONGQAI 4 D MODEL FROM POSTURE TRAJECTORY: A Strategic Framework for Understanding Military Change…
This work provides a respectful and concise account of Brigadier Anesh Haripersad’s life and…
