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Book Review: A Military History of Modern South Africa
Ian van Der Waag presents the first study of South Africa's armed forces as an institution
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A Lesson from the Boers
It was the Germans who, early in World War I, took the Boers' open-order infantry tactics to heart
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Great Guns!
In service to the British empire in Canada and South Africa, American machine gunner Arthur ‘Gat’ Howard lived up to his rat-a-tat nickname
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What We Learned From… Siege of Jadotville, 1961
On June 30, 1960, amid violent riots after 52 years of colonial rule, Belgium reluctantly granted independence to Congo. No longer satisfied with the status quo, black enlisted men in the Force Publique (Congo’s military) mutinied against their white Belgian officers, and the country soon erupted in anti-white violence
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The Half-Cocked Cossack
Freebooter Nikolai Ashinov sought a foothold for Mother Russia in the Red Sea—but his African misadventure only caused embarrassment
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The River Ran Red
When wary Zulus massacred a party of unarmed Boer settlers, the Afrikaners mounted a punitive campaign into the heart of the warrior kingdom