Africa’s military might has evolved over the years, with several nations strengthening their defence capabilities and ...

In 1970s and 1980s, South Africa was involved in a series of wars which are usually known as South African Border Wars. One of them was the civil conflict in Angola. While Cuba and the Communist block ...

How Angola's legendary rebel leader, Jonas Savimbi, turned on his friends and killed them in droves. THE LAST WORD \| Andrew M. Mwenda \| A couple of months ago, while visiting Gen ...

In recent weeks, I have penned multiple articles on U.S. Armed Forces’ elite Special Operations units, from the Army’s Delta Force and Special Forces (SF, AKA “Green Berets”), to the Navy’s SEAL Team ...

The Parabats were first “blooded” in combat in 1966 during a counterinsurgency war in South West Africa (known nowadays as Namibia); indeed, these troops carried out the very first combat action of ...