South Africa, Counter-insurgency, Terrorism, and Publicity
Author: Michael Hough
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13:
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South Africa and Contemporary Counterinsurgency
Author: Deane-Peter Baker
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781919895338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"As the global landscape changes - politically and economically - so governments need to reassess the threats of violence both within and outside their borders. The South African Defence Force is reviewing the likely future threat environment and this book is the result - an aid to thought and understanding in preparing for a future in which insurgencies and other irregular threats loom large. The book outlines key concepts and theoretical constructs relevant to understanding counterinsurgency; assesses the history and current state of South Africa's counterinsurgency capabilities; and, extracts key lessons from recent relevant case studies, such as MONUC in the DRC, counterinsurgency and peacekeeping in Northern Uganda, private security contractors in Nigeria, and the failures of cultural intelligence in Burundi"--TSO online bookshop website.
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa
Author: Daniel L. Douek
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 1849048800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyses in unprecedented detail the hidden history of MK's struggle and its contribution to South Africa's liberation, while exposing new dimensions of clandestine apartheid-era violence. Drawing on interviews with former MK guerrillas, Daniel Douek traces the evolution of MK's operations across southern Africa from the 1960s, culminating in the 1990-4 negotiations between the ANC and the white supremacist regime. As political violence escalated, the battle waged in the shadows became nothing less than a struggle to shape South Africa's future. Counterinsurgency forces recruited spies, deployed death squads, engaged in psychological warfare, and targeted ANC leaders, including MK chief Chris Hani. Even once ANC elites had come to power, apartheid counterinsurgency operations continued to undermine South Africa's new democracy by marginalizing MK guerrillas within the 'new' security forces, leaving legacies of violence and instability still felt today.
The Terrorist Album
Author: Jacob Dlamini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0674916557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning historian and journalist tells the very human story of apartheid’s afterlife, tracing the fates of South African insurgents, collaborators, and the security police through the tale of the clandestine photo album used to target apartheid’s enemies. From the 1960s until the early 1990s, the South African security police and counterinsurgency units collected over 7,000 photographs of apartheid’s enemies. The political rogue’s gallery was known as the “terrorist album,” copies of which were distributed covertly to police stations throughout the country. Many who appeared in the album were targeted for surveillance. Sometimes the security police tried to turn them; sometimes the goal was elimination. All of the albums were ordered destroyed when apartheid’s violent collapse began. But three copies survived the memory purge. With full access to one of these surviving albums, award-winning South African historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates the story behind these images: their origins, how they were used, and the lives they changed. Extensive interviews with former targets and their family members testify to the brutal and often careless work of the police. Although the police certainly hunted down resisters, the terrorist album also contains mug shots of bystanders and even regime supporters. Their inclusion is a stark reminder that apartheid’s guardians were not the efficient, if morally compromised, law enforcers of legend but rather blundering agents of racial panic. With particular attentiveness to the afterlife of apartheid, Dlamini uncovers the stories of former insurgents disenchanted with today’s South Africa, former collaborators seeking forgiveness, and former security police reinventing themselves as South Africa’s newest export: “security consultants” serving as mercenaries for Western nations and multinational corporations. The Terrorist Album is a brilliant evocation of apartheid’s tragic caprice, ultimate failure, and grim legacy.
Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
Author: Daniel E Agbiboa
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2022-02-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0472129783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state’s “war on terror” mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.
Shadows in the Sand
Author: Sisingi Kamongo
Publisher: 30 Degrees South Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780620474795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first-ever account of the bush war by a non-white member of the South African security forces; it offers a unique, previously untold perspective of the bush war, by an on-the-ground tracker
Routledge Handbook of Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Africa
Author: Usman A. Tar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 758
ISBN-13: 1351271903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates how Africa’s defence and security domains have been radically altered by drastic changes in world politics and local ramifications. First, the contributions of numerous authors highlight the transnational dimensions of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa and reveal the roles played by African states and regional organisations in the global war on terror. Second, the volume critically evaluates the emerging regional architectures of countering terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent through the African Union Counterterrorism Framework (AU-CTF) and Regional Security Complexes (RSC). Third, the book sheds light on the counterterrorism and counterinsurgency (CT-COIN) structures and mechanisms established by specific African states to contain, degrade, and eliminate terrorism, insurgency, and organised violence on the continent, particularly the successes, constraints, and challenges of the emerging CT-COIN mechanisms. Finally, the volume highlights the entry of non-state actors – such as civil society, volunteer groups, private security companies, and defence contractors – into the theatre of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency in Africa through volunteerism, community support for state-led CT-COIN Operations, and civil-military cooperation (CIMIC). This book will be of use to students and scholars of security studies, African studies, international relations, and terrorism studies, and to practitioners of development, defence, security, and strategy.
Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in Somalia
Author: Seth G. Jones
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 083309484X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report analyzes the U.S. and allied campaign against the al Qa’ida–linked terrorist group al Shabaab in Somalia, examines what steps have been most successful against the group, and identifies potential recommendations. It concludes that, while al Shaba'ab was weakened between 2011 and 2016, the group could resurge if urgent steps are not taken to address the political, economic, and governance challenges at the heart of the conflict.
Code Name Angel
Author: George M. James
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-02-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781517336158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the first major Egg Breaker operations was to recover lost South African nukes on its way to Iran or Al-Qaeda, we are not too sure. Major Foxtrot under command of his then issued girlfriend and handler, Angelique Dawson, has to recover the weapons. Angelique is causing Foxtrot grey hairs being "otherwise." It is a classic Special Forces story which never reached the newspapers. This book follows GMJ Book Six, Code Name Foxtrot and takes place historically before the Egg Breaker War Series or GMJ 1 to GMJ 5. If you wish to read about covert and Special Forces operations in Sub Saharan Africa the GMJ Books are the place to start. Code Name Angel is the seventh book in the GMJ Series.
Terrorism in Africa
Author: Martha Crenshaw
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of a series, this work is concerned with international terrorism, and deals with its manifestation in Africa. Among the events and topics covered are: the Entebbe rescue mission; African guerillas and indigenous governments; South Africa, terrorism and state disintegration; and more.
