Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00601004
E. Mosely
{"title":"I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army , by Evelyn Amony","authors":"E. Mosely","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00601004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00601004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125348001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00601005
{"title":"Dr. Martin Rupiya","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00601005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00601005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133614256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1163/24680966-bja10011
Evert Kleynhans, W. Gordon
During the Second World War, between 1941 and 1942, a large number of South African troops were made prisoners of war (POW) by the Axis forces in the Western Desert. These troops were first interned in POW transit camps in North Africa, before being shipped to more permanent camps in Italy and later Germany. A large number of the South African captives decided to accept their newfound fates and make their internment as ‘pleasant’ as possible. However, a small nucleus of South African servicemen either tried to evade capture altogether, or, when captured, actively tried to escape. The first large scale attempts of escape and evasion by South African servicemen therefore occurred in North Africa between 1941 and 1942. This article provides an exploratory investigation into the varied experiences of the South African soldiers that either evaded capture altogether or escaped from internment in North Africa.
{"title":"Springbok Escapers and Evaders in the Western Desert, 1941–1942","authors":"Evert Kleynhans, W. Gordon","doi":"10.1163/24680966-bja10011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-bja10011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the Second World War, between 1941 and 1942, a large number of South African troops were made prisoners of war (POW) by the Axis forces in the Western Desert. These troops were first interned in POW transit camps in North Africa, before being shipped to more permanent camps in Italy and later Germany. A large number of the South African captives decided to accept their newfound fates and make their internment as ‘pleasant’ as possible. However, a small nucleus of South African servicemen either tried to evade capture altogether, or, when captured, actively tried to escape. The first large scale attempts of escape and evasion by South African servicemen therefore occurred in North Africa between 1941 and 1942. This article provides an exploratory investigation into the varied experiences of the South African soldiers that either evaded capture altogether or escaped from internment in North Africa.","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116941568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00601003
Quentin Holbert
{"title":"From Ally to Enemy: The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa, a Failed Intervention , by Gaim Kibreab","authors":"Quentin Holbert","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00601003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00601003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133117087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-15DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00601001
Ryan Clarke
The white minority of Rhodesia (before 1964 Southern Rhodesia and after 1980 Zimbabwe) took its own independence from Britain rather than begin the orderly processes of majority rule and decolonization in 1965. A few years later Rhodesia began its counter-insurgency against the two guerrilla armies that sought to liberate the country. This counterinsurgency involved what was perhaps the most onerous conscription of anywhere in the world after 1945: by 1976, men 18-35 served for two years after which they were liable for reserve duty of 190 days a year at six week intervals. Rhodesia lost the war, and the minority rule of the nation, but not without a fight that has been mythologized by its supporters and its soldiers. In the years since 1980, and most especially since the years since 2000, former soldiers have memorialized their service, and the nation that no longer exists, in memoirs and monuments. The memoirs have become a cottage industry for veterans of the Rhodesian forces. They do not all tell a story of military might and the small, brave nation fighting for its survival against guerrillas trained by communists in Eastern Europe. Instead they record all the ambivalence and anxieties of young men who are unsure of their claim to belong in Africa and who are willing to serve their country but only if they can go abroad for university after that. I have had a book project on the Rhodesian Army at war in the works for many years; what I had written was based on these memoirs and material from the Rhodesian Army papers that were briefly available (2003-07) in a now-defunct private museum in Britain. The more I read and wrote, however, the more I thought this project should be on the Rhodesian Army at war and in the post-war, looking not only at how white soldiers fought but how they memorialized, in words and constructions, memorialized in Zimbabwe. I had the good fortune to go around these grounds with Steve Davis (UF PhD, 2010 and now an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky) and it is his photograph that I use.
{"title":"Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Post-War, by Luise White","authors":"Ryan Clarke","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00601001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00601001","url":null,"abstract":"The white minority of Rhodesia (before 1964 Southern Rhodesia and after 1980 Zimbabwe) took its own independence from Britain rather than begin the orderly processes of majority rule and decolonization in 1965. A few years later Rhodesia began its counter-insurgency against the two guerrilla armies that sought to liberate the country. This counterinsurgency involved what was perhaps the most onerous conscription of anywhere in the world after 1945: by 1976, men 18-35 served for two years after which they were liable for reserve duty of 190 days a year at six week intervals. Rhodesia lost the war, and the minority rule of the nation, but not without a fight that has been mythologized by its supporters and its soldiers. In the years since 1980, and most especially since the years since 2000, former soldiers have memorialized their service, and the nation that no longer exists, in memoirs and monuments. The memoirs have become a cottage industry for veterans of the Rhodesian forces. They do not all tell a story of military might and the small, brave nation fighting for its survival against guerrillas trained by communists in Eastern Europe. Instead they record all the ambivalence and anxieties of young men who are unsure of their claim to belong in Africa and who are willing to serve their country but only if they can go abroad for university after that. I have had a book project on the Rhodesian Army at war in the works for many years; what I had written was based on these memoirs and material from the Rhodesian Army papers that were briefly available (2003-07) in a now-defunct private museum in Britain. The more I read and wrote, however, the more I thought this project should be on the Rhodesian Army at war and in the post-war, looking not only at how white soldiers fought but how they memorialized, in words and constructions, memorialized in Zimbabwe. I had the good fortune to go around these grounds with Steve Davis (UF PhD, 2010 and now an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky) and it is his photograph that I use.","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117266206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-15DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00601002
D. Killingray
{"title":"Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War, by Ian van der Waag (ed.)","authors":"D. Killingray","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00601002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00601002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124403994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-08DOI: 10.1163/24680966-bja10009
C. Robinson
The history and the conflicts in which Sudanese Government armed forces have been involved are of interest both from the Sudanese historical and the military-historical angles. But while the agonies of Sudan’s civil wars have attracted significant academic interest, the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official military institutions in Africa have been neglected, and there is little recent research. Sudanese military intervention in politics, including five successful coups, has been discussed since Ruth First’s book in 1970 and before. There were at least 16 coups and attempted coups by the Sudanese Armed Forces from 1957 to 1976. But there is little coverage of the security forces, and there is little available to cover the Sudanese army’s more specifically military record. Thus it is worthwhile to draw the available scattered threads together to start to form a basis for further research. The Sudanese Armed Forces’ frequent political involvement will be signposted and wound in as necessary—ultimately armies are a function of their governments—but is not the function of this article. What emerges is scattered fragments on military forces and operations, overlaid on the unrelenting drumbeat of horrible details from the first Sudanese civil war.
{"title":"A Generation of Mysteries?","authors":"C. Robinson","doi":"10.1163/24680966-bja10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-bja10009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The history and the conflicts in which Sudanese Government armed forces have been involved are of interest both from the Sudanese historical and the military-historical angles. But while the agonies of Sudan’s civil wars have attracted significant academic interest, the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official military institutions in Africa have been neglected, and there is little recent research. Sudanese military intervention in politics, including five successful coups, has been discussed since Ruth First’s book in 1970 and before. There were at least 16 coups and attempted coups by the Sudanese Armed Forces from 1957 to 1976. But there is little coverage of the security forces, and there is little available to cover the Sudanese army’s more specifically military record. Thus it is worthwhile to draw the available scattered threads together to start to form a basis for further research. The Sudanese Armed Forces’ frequent political involvement will be signposted and wound in as necessary—ultimately armies are a function of their governments—but is not the function of this article. What emerges is scattered fragments on military forces and operations, overlaid on the unrelenting drumbeat of horrible details from the first Sudanese civil war.","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116811088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-10DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00502005
Oliver Coates
{"title":"Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups, by Alexander Thurston","authors":"Oliver Coates","doi":"10.1163/24680966-00502005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00502005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134363675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-10DOI: 10.1163/24680966-bja10008
M. Leśniewski
The Battle of Thukela was an important Zulu victory during the early stages of the Zulu-Boer War of 1838–1840; despite this there are few studies on this battle. This silence on the battle points to the need to fill this gap, particularly as the battle shows Zulu tactical ingenuity. In addition, this work seeks to better appreciate the role of the Zulu commander, Nongalaza kaNondela and his co-commanders, whose generalship was crucial to the Zulu victory. They used the typical Zulu order creatively showing tactical imagination and ability to improvise on the battlefield. Finally, this work also shows the role and importance of the Port Natal community in the early stages of the war and motives of their co-operation with Boers as well as the internal conflicts among the Port Natal hunter-traders.
{"title":"The Battle of Thukela (Ndondakusuka), 17 April 1838","authors":"M. Leśniewski","doi":"10.1163/24680966-bja10008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/24680966-bja10008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Battle of Thukela was an important Zulu victory during the early stages of the Zulu-Boer War of 1838–1840; despite this there are few studies on this battle. This silence on the battle points to the need to fill this gap, particularly as the battle shows Zulu tactical ingenuity. In addition, this work seeks to better appreciate the role of the Zulu commander, Nongalaza kaNondela and his co-commanders, whose generalship was crucial to the Zulu victory. They used the typical Zulu order creatively showing tactical imagination and ability to improvise on the battlefield. Finally, this work also shows the role and importance of the Port Natal community in the early stages of the war and motives of their co-operation with Boers as well as the internal conflicts among the Port Natal hunter-traders.","PeriodicalId":143855,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Military History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130673986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-10DOI: 10.1163/24680966-00502100
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