South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military: Lost in Transition and Transformation
In: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
In: Springer eBook Collection
Introduction: Overview of Lost in Transition and Transformation -- New Security Environment: Mission Focus, Organisational and Force Restructuring -- Peace Missions: The Nature and Experiences of Deployment and Reintegration -- Civil-Military Relations: The Theory, Practice and Implications of a Civil-Military Gap -- Political Transformation: Integration, Affirmative Action and the Management of Diversity -- Military Veterans: Difficulties of Reintegration and Challenges of Compensation -- Gender Equality: Inclusion, Exclusion and the Challenge of Re-Gendering the Military -- HIV/ AIDS: The Threat, Prevention and Controversy Surrounding Testing and Deployment -- Military Unions: Emergence, Resistance and Attempts at Obviating the Need for Unions -- Conclusions, lessons learned and future challenges.