Archive: Whither the Defence Industry?
The state of the "defence-related" industry is terrible and it's getting worse. The question of whether there will still be a defence...
Archive: Doing the “Petronius Arbiter”
The SA National Defence force is currently in the midst of yet another re-organisation and yet the talk is about deployments at...
Archive:Africa: The last great untapped defence market
Africa is the last great untapped defence market. By the end of this decade Africa plans to have a multi-brigade United Nations-style...
Archive: Military Engineers — Masters of Mobility
The military engineer is arguably the most under-rated individual on the battlefield. Yet military engineers have been leaders in innovation in the...
Archive: SANDF at 10: An assessment
The SA National Defence Force is fast approaching the tenth anniversary of its founding on April 27, 1994. Although ten-year reviews are...
Archive: Building a new SANDF soldier by sailor by airman
The central thesis is that the SA National Defence Force will have to solve its staff problems before it can begin to...
Archive: February 2004 address to ENSP
Seldom in the conduct of human affairs have two groups been more predisposed to misunderstand each other than the military and journalists....
Archive: Hocus Pocus with TOE
Much intellectual capital has been expended on divining the perfect organigram and equipment fit of units, battalion/regiment and below. Most proponents go into...
Archive: Army underfunded
The Army is so under-funded that it no longer fields a combat-ready parachute capability. This has emerged from a recent briefing to...
Archive: SA’s third democratic election comes and goes, no policy changes expected
South Africa's third democratic, nonracial election since 1994 has come and gone, leaving in its wake little but speculation on who will...
Archive: Uniform reform
The camouflage uniform has not been an unqualified success. While they certainly let the wearer "feel" more soldierly and therefore contribute to...
Archive: SANDF in large scale spring-cleaning
Looking for previously owned arms? Armscor may have a bargain for you! The South African Department of Defence's (DOD) acquisitions (and disposals)...
Archive: Serving at whose convenience?
Has our Constitution, billed as among the most progressive in the world, become a license to leisure for some in the...
Archive: How long is a piece of string?
The minutes of the Portfolio Committee on Defence (PCOD) and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) -- available to the public...
Archive: The infantry
Although up to one in three members of the SA National Defence Force belong to the South African Infantry Corps (SAIC), not...
Archive: Artillery – The God of War
Traditionally -- and statistically -- the artillery has been the major killer on the battlefield. Simply put, the task of the infantry...
Archive: A matter of opinion
Opinions are a wonderful escape from reality. Germans spent most of the final years of World War Two believing they were winning...
Archive: The Air-Ground Task Force
The case for the Air-Ground Task Force (AGTF) was made in the November 2001 edition this Journal. This article will build on...
Archive: Aerospace strategy takes wing
A long-anticipated strategy to boost South Africa's aerospace sector the way that the Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) bolstered the country's car-making...
Archive: The Willi Sanger battalion: modern-day Seydlitz troops?
The Nationalen Volksarmee (National People's Army, NVA) of the defunct German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR), combined the essential elements of Prussian...
