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This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.
Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521195101
This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1135365849
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521882389
This book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.
Author : Paul D. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509509089
After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.
Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780852550328
Innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period.
Author : John Parker
Publisher :
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 019957247X
Provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa
Author : Howard Whitehouse
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781869871017
Author : Eeben Barlow
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
Page : pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928211761
Composite Warfare presents African soldiers and scholars with a true African 'Art of War'. As a continent, Africa presents her armies with a vast, dynamic and multidimensional operating environment. It has numerous complex and diverse ethnic, religious, cultural and tribal interests and loyalties, along with many multifaceted threat-drivers coupled to varied and infrastructure-poor terrain plus vast climatic variations. The continent is, furthermore, characterized by numerous half-won conflicts and wars fought by incorrectly structured, inadequately trained and ill-equipped armies. For many reasons, these forces have difficulty adapting to the complex, demanding and rapidly changing environments they do battle in. Similarly, the armies have difficulty in decisively defeating the various threats they face. Many of these problems stem from the fact that numerous modern-day African armies are merely clones of the armies established by their once-colonial masters, their Cold War allies or their new international allies. Many of the principles and tactics, techniques and procedures they were - and still are - being taught relate to fighting in Europe and not in Africa. Some of these concepts are not even relevant to Africa. This book is intended as a guide and textbook for African soldiers and scholars who wish to understand the development of hostilities, strategy, operational design, doctrine and tactics. It also illustrates the importance of nonpartisanship and the mission and role of the armed forces. Officers, NCOs and their subordinates need to, furthermore, understand their role in defending and protecting the government and the people they serve. They additionally need to know how to successfully accomplish their numerous missions with aggression, audacity, boldness, speed and surprise. The book provides the reader with valuable information relating to conventional and unconventional maneuver. It also discusses how African armies can, with structured and balanced forces, achieve strategic, operational and tactical success. It covers the role of government along with operations related to war, operations other than war and intelligence operations and how these operations, operating in a coordinated and unified manner, can secure and strengthen a government. Composite Warfare draws on the author's experiences and lessons in Central, Southern, East, West and North Africa where he has served numerous African governments as a politico-military strategist, division commander, division adviser, battalion commander and special operations commander.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780304362127
It was the century of American independence, of warfare between France and Prussia, of invading Mongols in Tibet. The most successful power anywhere was China; the largest land battles took place in India. All around the globe, using weaponry from muskets to the bow-and-arrow, conflicts raged: in a way, these were the first "world wars." Sometimes troubles on the edges of empire triggered new battles in Europe, and the balance of power shifted as France weakened and Frederick the Great established Prussia as a major new force. From the forests of New England to the Philippines, the diverse campaigns covered here portray developments in every society, on land and on sea, and reveal how new policies arose with the growth of colonialism.
Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847016041
A history of pre-colonial warfare in eastern Africa. Contents include: 'Tools & Tactics', 'Organisation & Fuction', 'Violence & Society' and 'The Culture of Conflict'.