The SAAF’s Options for Tactical Airlift
Regardless of procurement choices, there will remain a need for a smaller and cheaper types.
South Africa’s Airlift Crisis
The South African Air Force (SAAF) faces an airlift crisis. While the demands on its fleet continue to increase, including larger and riskier missions thousands of kilometres from South Africa, its aged transport aircraft are unable to keep up and the stopgap chartering of Illyushins and Antonovs has proven to be unreliable when it mattered.
Unloved but Needed: PMCs in Africa
The stark absence of core competencies in many African militaries draws PMSCs to the continent. DAVID PFOTENHAUER considers some of the questions that arise.
The future of air power in Southern Africa
As the political, economic and technological aspects of countries in the South African Development Community (SADC) change, the region’s air power balance and structure is likely to shift.
SA’s Military: Scrabbling for Petrol Money
Expected to do more operations in its democratic incarnation with less money than before, the cracks are beginning to show in the South African National Defence Force. It’s time to face up to the poverty taking root in the armed forces, argues JOHN STUPART.
Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Transnational Insurgency?
By no means vanquished, the group has been shifting tactics and operational locations in the face of a blunt and inefficient military response.