Beschreibung
The book attempts to interrogate the impact of racial policies of the white minority government of Rhodesia and the white apartheid South Africa in Southern Africa in the fight against what was perceived to be communist onslaught in the 1960s and 1980s. In the decolonization process in Southern Africa, Rhodesia and South Africa stood for what was perceived to be the last stand of western civilisation. The two countries possessed what many analysts saw as the two strongest military machines on the African continent, south of the Sahara. Their final military and strategic capitulation in Southern Africa marked the total decolonization of the African continent. It would be these racial policies that were to sap their military potential and national capacity to wage war against nationalist guerrillas, wars of national liberation. The racial policies of Rhodesia and South Africa kept the pre-majority rule regimes from maximising the effectiveness of counter-insurgency operations.
Autorenporträt
Chinyanganya Max John is a holder of a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (DPhil) from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). He is a retired military officer from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces with a Brigadier General (Retd) rank, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the War & Strategic Studies Unit in the History Department at the UZ.
