02297nam 22004933u 450 991078386660332120230124181924.01-135-36388-90-203-15861-X1-280-40063-30-203-00670-49786610400638(CKB)1000000000250134(EBL)165212(OCoLC)437073490(MiAaPQ)EBC165212(EXLCZ)99100000000025013420140217d2002|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Frontiersmen[electronic resource] warfare in Africa since 1950Hoboken Taylor and Francis20021 online resource (260 p.)Warfare and HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-85728-524-7 Book Cover; Title; Contents; Maps; Preface; Introduction; Independence wars 1950 to 1962; Independence wars 1962 to 1980; Wars of integration and disintegration I: 1960 to 1980; Southern Africa to 1983; Southern Africa 1984 to 1997; Wars of integration and disintegration II: 1980 to 1997; Conclusion; Appendix: technical note; Notes; Chronology; Selected reading; IndexSince 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a military tradition that ranges from the highly sophisticated electronic, air and armour fighting between South Africa and Angola-Cuban forces, to the spears and machetes of the Rwandan genocide. The author explores two themes: first, that warfare in North Africa has principally been a matter of identity and secondly, that warfare south of the Sahara is comparable with that of pre-colonial Africa - conflicts of frontiersmen trying to extend their control oWarfare and HistoryMilitary art and scienceWarMilitary art and science.War.355.0209609045355/.0096/09045960.32Clayton Anthony243126AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910783866603321Frontiersmen1300958UNINA