Operation Savannah: A Measure of SADF Decline, Resourcefulness and Modernisation

SADF conventional warfare capacity exhibited a decline during the 1950s, followed by belated efforts at rearmament and consolidation during the 1960s. However, Operation Savannah, the SADF’s intervention in the Angolan civil war during 1975–1976, as the force’s first involvement in a conventional-ty...

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Main Author: Rodney Warwick
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-02-01
Series:Scientia Militaria
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Online Access:http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1042