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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. |