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Title:Military Dependence: The Colonial Legacy
Author:Crocker, Chester A.
Year:1974
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:12
Issue:2
Period:June
Pages:265-286
Language:English
Geographic terms:English-speaking Africa
French-speaking Africa
Africa
Subjects:defence
decolonization
Military, Defense and Arms
colonialism
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/159723
Abstract:Although there has been seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid to the African military, the significance of African armies for Africa's international relations has been obscured. In this study it is argued I. that the colonial record contains evidence of the international strategic importance European powers attached to Africa, 2. that there are major and little-noted differences between the English- and French-speaking African experiences in the military-strategic sphere, and 3. that there is international significance in the background, nature, and functions of African armies. So the author describes the process of military decolonisation, the historical contrast in anglophone and franeophone Africa, and Africa's 'peripheral dependent' status.
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