The First Campaign Victory of the Great War: South Africa, Manoeuvre Warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West African Campaign, 1914 Garcia Antonio
The First Campaign Victory of the Great War: South Africa, Manoeuvre Warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West African Campaign, 1914 Garcia Antonio The First World War moulded the…
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The First Campaign Victory of the Great War: South Africa, Manoeuvre Warfare, the Afrikaner Rebellion and the German South West African Campaign, 1914 Garcia Antonio
The First World War moulded the global landscape and had a lasting effect on much of the World. South Africa's First World War campaign in German South West Africa was a daring military undertaking epitomised by manoeuvre and rapidity.The author takes a novel approach in comparing the campaign to manoeuvre warfare theory. Where the majority of international research focusses on the European theatre, Antonio Garcia explores one of the peripheral campaigns of the Great War.
In order to achieve a rapid victory against the German forces, the South African soldiers were pushed to the limits of exhaustion to achieve the Union of South Africa's strategic objectives.The campaign in the deserts of German Manoeuvre theory is based on the principles of mobility, rapidity and surprise which attempts to achieve victory with the least loss of resources and in the shortest time possible.