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Reflections on war : preparedness and consequences / editors Thean Potgieter & Ian Liebenberg.
- Title
- Reflections on war : preparedness and consequences / editors Thean Potgieter & Ian Liebenberg.
- Publication
- Stellenbosch : Sun Press, 2012.
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- Description
- vi, 300 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Military history
- Military history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Considering theory, strategy and objectives in war -- Military preparedness in history -- The Second World War and South African society, 1939-1945 -- Militarised politics, economic consequences and the implosion of state legitimacy under apartheid -- Preparing military personnel -- Preparing for war : the readiness debate and the South African National Defence force -- Casualites -- Geography and the conduct of war -- Flying blind : intelligence, defence planning and the conduct of war -- Logistics -- Borderlands and internal conflict -- Military intervention justified? Challlenges of the just cause theory -- Public opinion, media and readiness to go to war -- Conflict and economic consequences -- War in disguise : the responsibility to protect (R2P) as a new means to armed aggression.
- ISBN
- 9781920338848 (pbk.)
- 1920338845 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 844689288
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library