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Achieving Political Objectives: South African Defense Priorities from the Apartheid to the Postapartheid Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Amy Truesdell
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This article explores the question of how well South African defense policies and investments during the apartheid and postapartheid era have supported the country's overall political objectives. Perhaps not surprisingly, the single-mindedness of mission during apartheid contributed, in many ways, to a defense strategy that was more cohesive than that of the postapartheid era. In the postapartheid era, opportunities for using the country's defense assets to achieve political objectives and overall national priorities have not been fully exploited.

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African Studies Review , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , December 2009 , pp. 107 - 125
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2009

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