General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa, 1914-1917 Katz David Brock
General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa, 1914-1917 Katz David Brock A new assessment of Jan Smuts's military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating…
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General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa, 1914-1917 Katz David Brock
A new assessment of Jan Smuts's military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general.World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa - the demise of which would end the Kaiser's grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa.
As part of his strategy to shift South Africa's borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions.Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair