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The SAAF’s Options for Tactical Airlift
This article originally appeared in the May edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. It has received minor edits to bring it up to date. In my last post I described […]
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South Africa's Airlift Crisis
The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces an airlift crisis. While the demands on its fleet continue to increase, including larger and riskier missions thousands of […]
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Unloved but Needed: PMCs in Africa
Africa presents Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) with an endless market of opportunities. Their presence - particularly around the horn of Africa - has […]
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The future of air power in Southern Africa
This article originally appeared in the February edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. As the political, economic and technological aspects of countries in the […]
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SA's Military: Scrabbling for Petrol Money
In the 1990’s Deloitte and Touche were awarded a multi-million rand contract to restructure the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) into a more efficient […]
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Boko Haram: Nigeria's Transnational Insurgency?
Though under-reported internationally, Nigeria’s conflict with Boko Haram has by no means gone away. African Defence Review sat down with Conway Waddington, a […]
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Commentary on ongoing fighting in Mali
With the war against Tuareg militants in Mali having fallen off the popular news radar, African Defence Review sat down with Conway Waddington, a specialist conflict […]
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Angola's New Su–30Ks
This article originally appeared in the January edition of SA Flyer and FlightCom magazine. The only change has been to revise the number of aircraft acquired from 18 to […]
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Structuring the African Military Beyond COIN
African conflicts should not be viewed in the same lens as Iraq and Afghanistan. A perfectly sensible statement, yet one that is ignored in a flood of attention paid […]
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Africa Offshore: Maritime Security Update
Moving offshore briefly, African Defence Review attended the Maritime and Coastal Security Africa conference and chatted to Rear Admiral Ben Bekkering from the Dutch […]
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The economic link to piracy in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports from the Maritime and Coastal Security conference in Cape Town – piracy is not a new phenomenon in the world and the motivation is generally greed. […]