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Title: | The Assignment of South African Armed Forces Abroad, 1912-1976 |
Author: | Grundy, Kenneth W. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | Winter |
Pages: | 396-413 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | foreign policy defence History and Exploration Military, Defense and Arms |
Abstract: | Until the passage of the Defence Act of 1976 two provisions represented curious barriers in the conduct of South African defence and foreign policy: 1) the territorial definition of South Africa for defense purposes, and 2) the stipulation that a member of the South African armed forces may be required to perform military service outside of South Africa only with his written consent. This article explores these two controversial provision in depth. It examines, chiefly, the various means devised in two world wars and beyond to facilitate the assignment of South African troops overseas despite legal constraints on their use. Considering the socio-economic origins of defense policy, the author tests, in the context of South Africa's white polity, the proposition that in multi- and binational states foreign policy and especially military effort contributes either to a sense of national integration or to the use of foreign policy threats to justify repressive domestic policies. Notes. |