Looking for something else I found this complimentary book review; the author Professor Timothy Stapleton is a Canadian and has written other books on warfare in Africa. Amazon states:
One...
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Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952–1990 (Warfare, Society and Culture)
Looking for something else I found this complimentary book review; the author Professor Timothy Stapleton is a Canadian and has written other books on warfare in Africa. Amazon states:
One...
Browsing YouTube I found a number of old...
Browsing YouTube I found a number of old documentaries, mainly from the South African viewpoint and notifications of new South African films, like Recce, alas only a...
Strategy: lessons to note from South Africa?
An article on South Africa's 'Total National Strategy' from the UK blog (yes again) Defence in Depth; it starts with:It ends...
Jim Hooper's book on Koevoet
I was at the book launch this evening and have my copy to read, so a review will follow soon. The new edition has 30% new material and more names than before.
Koevoet! Experiencing South Africa’s Deadly Bush War
Jim Hooper's book on Koevoet is a classic, embedded writer's account of this conflict in SW Africa now Namibia, which was written twenty years ago and is being launched in March 2012, in London....
Shadows In The Sand
Cross-posted from the 'What are you reading' thread.
About to finish this excellent 300 pg. book, which is sub-titled 'A Koevoet Tracker's Story of an Insurgency War' by Sisingi Kamongo and Leon...
Lesson id'd, lesson overlooked?
JMA,
A good catch and reading through it I found this - note written in 2000 by a USMC officer:
See pgs.52-53.
Book reviewed
Book review, thanks to the BSAP email:http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8792:book-review-pathfinder-company&catid=57:Book%20Reviews&Itemid=141
Peter McAleese: small world
JMA said:
Small world, Peter McAleese wrote a good, small book 'No Mean Soldier' ten years ago and he was then living in Birmingham, with detours to Algeria. He ran a few pubs near where I worked...
London book launch: SADF Pathfinders
Came to my in tray via a BSAP History email; alas I cannot attend being in the French Alps.
UK Pathfinders will also be present, with a display.
Thursday 16th September - London Club of the...
Visual aids: Koevoet
In the first post I mentioned the 1988 book Koevoet by Jim Hooper (a US photographer / journalist based in the UK, who had embedded with SW African COIN unit, in the conflict over nowadays Namibia)....
A mixture
Moderator's Note: JMA started this thread and I copied some threads to this thread, they were mainly from the Rhodesian COIN thread and a few others.
Koevoet by Jim Hooper (US journalist embedded...