Search results

Title Page -- About the Layout -- Dedication -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: South Africa, 1899-1902: The Last Gentleman's War? -- The geopolitical landscape and the rival strategies -- Boer and Briton -- The Boer offensive and the battles of the frontiers -- The British invasion of the republics -- The change in Boer strategy -- The British counterinsurgency strategy: logistics, blockhouses, mobile columns, camps -- Blockhouses -- Drives: mobile columns and armoured trains -- Boer tactics -- Morale -- Political warfare -- The butcher's bill -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Integration and Union, 1902-1914 -- Empire, military organisation and the threat perception -- Pacification of the highveld and creation of the Transvaal Volunteers -- The politics of military integration: the forging of the Union Defence Force -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: The First World War, 1914-1918 -- The politics of participation -- A bad beginning: gambits and crises -- Military reform and the second invasion of South West Africa -- Raising and dispatch of expeditionary forces -- German East Africa, 1915-1918 -- The Middle East: Egypt and Palestine -- France: mud and trenches -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: The Inter-war Years, 1919-1939 -- Defence policy, strategic calculations and threat perception -- Demobilisation, rationalisation and reorganisation -- Technology, military innovation and organisational politics -- Politics: domestic and Commonwealth -- Revised threat perception and policy change -- Political opposition and mobilisation -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Second World War, 1939-1945 -- Politics, domestic and imperial -- A house divided: subversion, propaganda and secret agents -- The mobilisation of the Union Defence Force -- Home waters: the expansion of an air force and the creation of a navy