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The Story of a Maverick Pilot
Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 49, Nr 1, 2021. doi: 10.5787/49-1-1323 Book Review Gunship Over Angola : The Story of a Maverick Pilot Steve Joubert Anri Delport442 Stellenbosch University Johannesburg and Cape Town: Delta Books 2019, 240 pages ISBN 978-1-86842-930-1 “Most war stories”, according to Hynes, “begin with a nobody-in-particular young man, who lives through the experience of war, to emerge at the end defined by what has happened to him.”443 One such “nobody-in-particular young man” was national serviceman 74257684BC Private Stephen Pierre Joubert, born on 3 July 1958 in Chingola, then Northern Rhodesia.444 Since the age of five, he and his family lived in Pretoria. He had a typical childhood in most respects.445 Barely seventeen years old, he, like many other young men, reported for national service. One year later, in 1977, he stood in a “perfectly pressed” uniform with “buttons and badges [that] sparkled like diamonds” in a large room in a nondescript building at the South African Airforce (SAAF) Gymnasium in Valhalla, Pretoria.446 Facing him was an intimidating, expressionless collection of brass seated in a semicircle. It was Joubert’s second Pilot Selection Board interview for the Pupil Pilot’s Course. Among the brass was the legendary aviator, World War II and Korean War veteran, then chief of the SAAF, General Bob Rogers. The general asked the first question, “[h]ow long have you wanted to be a pilot?” Joubert responded, “[s]ince I stopped wanting to be an ice cream seller, sir!”447 Two years later, “on an early November day”, 21-year-old Joubert with wings pinned to his chest stepped onto AFB Ondangwa in South West Africa, now called Namibia.448 The events that followed changed him forever. -
Title of Thesis: ABSTRACT CLASSIFYING BIAS
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: CLASSIFYING BIAS IN LARGE MULTILINGUAL CORPORA VIA CROWDSOURCING AND TOPIC MODELING Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang Thesis Directed By: Dr. David Zajic, Ph.D. Our project extends previous algorithmic approaches to finding bias in large text corpora. We used multilingual topic modeling to examine language-specific bias in the English, Spanish, and Russian versions of Wikipedia. In particular, we placed Spanish articles discussing the Cold War on a Russian-English viewpoint spectrum based on similarity in topic distribution. We then crowdsourced human annotations of Spanish Wikipedia articles for comparison to the topic model. Our hypothesis was that human annotators and topic modeling algorithms would provide correlated results for bias. However, that was not the case. Our annotators indicated that humans were more perceptive of sentiment in article text than topic distribution, which suggests that our classifier provides a different perspective on a text’s bias. CLASSIFYING BIAS IN LARGE MULTILINGUAL CORPORA VIA CROWDSOURCING AND TOPIC MODELING by Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Gemstone Honors Program, University of Maryland, 2018 Advisory Committee: Dr. David Zajic, Chair Dr. Brian Butler Dr. Marine Carpuat Dr. Melanie Kill Dr. Philip Resnik Mr. Ed Summers © Copyright by Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang 2018 Acknowledgements We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our mentor, Dr. -
Half a Century of South African “Border War'' Literature: a Historiographical Exploration
André Wessels Senior Professor, HALF A CENTURY Department of History, OF SOUTH AFRICAN Faculty of the Humanities, University of the “BORDER WAR’’ LITERATURE: Free State and a Visiting Professor, University of A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force EXPLORATION Academy, Canberra. E-mail: wesselsa@ufs. ac.za Abstract Half a century ago, in 1966, the so-called “Border War” broke out in DOI: https://dx.doi. what was then called South-West Africa (SWA) – known as Namibia org/10.18820/24150509/ after gaining independence in 1990. It was the most comprehensive, JCH42.v2.2 costly and traumatic of all the apartheid wars, and although it focused on SWA/Namibia, the conflict spilled over into Angola and Zambia, ISSN 0258-2422 (Print) and should also be viewed in relation to the role played by the then ISSN 2415-0509 (Online) South African Defence Force (SADF) in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and in Journal for Contemporary Mozambique. While the War for Southern Africa (1966-1989) was History being fought, a number of books on the conflict were published. In the 2017 42(2):24-47 1990s, while South Africa experienced a decade of dramatic political © UV/UFS changes and concomitant transformation, not many books on the war “up north” and “on the border” were published, but from about the dawn of the new millennium, there has been a steady stream of publications (mostly in South Africa) that deal with the above- mentioned conflict. Why this renewed interest? Who are the authors? What do they write about? This article endeavours to provide answers to these and related questions by analysing half a century of “Border War” literature, primarily focusing on books published in South Africa. -
South African Journal of Military Studies
Scientia Militaria ARTICLES From Boleas to Bangui: Parliamentary oversight of South African defence deployments Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg, Francois Vreÿ and Theo Neethling The Suwalki Gap dilemma: A strategic and operational analysis Leopold Scholtz Is open source GIS feasible in military operations? Evaluation by applying a USE Case Susan Henrico, Serena Coetzee and Antony Cooper Effects of self defence training for sexual assault prevention in the Air Force Roxanne S L DuVivier, Mary J Huber, Julian Bass, Alfred R Couchon, Alan Avila-John, Ryan Taylor and Joseph E Keferl Developing military environmental literacy in the South African Army through a dedicated military environmental of Military Studies management course HAP Smit Legislative disconnect or institutional gatekeeping? Challenges of researching South Africa’s military past South African Journal Evert Kleynhans and Will Gordon BOOK REVIEWS Anatomy of post-communist European defense institutions: The mirage of military modernity (Thomas-Durell Young) Evert Jordaan War, aggression and self-defence (Yoram Dinstein) André Stemmet South Africa’s post-apartheid military: Lost in transition and Volume 48 transformation (Lindy Heinecken) Number 1 Craig Bailie 2020 ISSN 2224-0020 (online) Prisoners of geography: Ten maps that tell you everything ISSN 1022-8136 (print) you need to know about global politics (Tim Marshall) Ivan Henrico scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/ Scientia Militaria South African Journal of Military Studies Editors: Prof. Thomas Mandrup Assistant Editors: Prof. Abel Esterhuyse Prof. Ian Liebenberg Dr Fankie Monama Dr Raymond Steenkamp-Fonseca Financial Manager: Mr Andries Fokkens Editorial Secretary: Mr Evert Jordaan Editorial Advisory Board Prof. Francois Vreÿ Prof. Bill Nasson Stellenbosh Institute for Department of History Governance and Leadership in Africa Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch University Prof. -
Moscow's Limited Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
No. 47 l February 2020 KENNAN CABLE The heads of delegations attending the Russia-Africa Summit pose for photographs. October 24, 2019; Sochi, Russia (Source: en.kremlin.ru) Moscow’s Limited Prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa By Emmanuel Dreyfus On October 23-24 in Sochi, a resort city on the Russian be over-exaggerated. Rather than a comprehensive Riviera, Vladimir Putin hosted over 50 African leaders strategy, Moscow’s current activism in Africa, and more for the first Russia-African summit. The meeting particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, is best understood as demonstrated Moscow’s ambitions toward the African opportunistic moves that are unlikely to yield significant continent. In the past few years, these ambitions have results. manifested themselves in the growing bilateral trade turnover, an increase of Russian arms sales, and an expansion of the Russian political-military presence The Soviet Roots of Russian-Africa throughout the continent. These trends have sparked Relations concerns of a so-called new Russian strategy toward The Soviet Union devoted little attention to the African Sub-Saharan Africa. The recent developments related continent until after WWII. After that, Moscow’s to Moscow’s “security” footprint in some Sub-Saharan approach became more consistent. During the late countries should not be ignored; but nor should they 1940s and the 1950s, Moscow provided important No. 47 l February 2020 KENNAN CABLE Soviet military instructors with Namibian guerrillas during the South African Border War, late 1970s. (Photo courtesy of https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%E2%80%93Soviet_Union_relations) political support to various decolonization Ranking Sub-Saharan Africa among movements across Asia and Africa. -
Perceptions of Race and Class Among Chicano Vietnam Veterans Ybarra Lea
Vietnam Generation Volume 1 Number 2 A White Man's War: Race Issues and Article 7 Vietnam 4-1989 Perceptions of Race and Class Among Chicano Vietnam Veterans Ybarra Lea Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Lea, Ybarra (1989) "Perceptions of Race and Class Among Chicano Vietnam Veterans," Vietnam Generation: Vol. 1 : No. 2 , Article 7. Available at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/vietnamgeneration/vol1/iss2/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Vietnam Generation by an authorized editor of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. P e r c e p t io n s o f R a c e ancI CLa ss A ivionq C hiCANO VIETNAM VETERANS L ea YbARRA “La Batalla Esta Aqui” was a rallying ciy in the 1960s and 1970s for those within the Chicano community who opposed the Vietnam War. They held that the real battle was in the United States, not in Vietnam, and that the billions of dollars that were being spent on the war abroad were needed for the war against poverty at home. They felt that money which was going to support the war could be better used improving medical care, housing and educational opportunities for Americans: With that money we could have built eight million new homes, worth $25,000 each—wiping out our slums. Every time we blow up a village in Vietnam we are spending enough money to build a new hospital or library here. -
The Angolan Civil War – a Cold War Microcosm? In: Thomas Spielbuechler/Markus Wurzer (Hg.): Afrika – Zugänge Und Einordnungen
Gesellschaft zur Förderung wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Publikation www.begutachtet.at [email protected] Thomas Schwärzler: The Angolan Civil War – A Cold War Microcosm? In: Thomas Spielbuechler/Markus Wurzer (Hg.): Afrika – Zugänge und Einordnungen. Afrikaforschung in Österreich, Linz 2017, S. 85–111. Dieser Artikel ist Teil eines Sammelbandes als Ergebnis der der Konferenz Afrika – Zugänge und Einordnungen, die vom 17. bis 18. November 2016 an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz stattfand. Online abrufbar unter: http://epub.jku.at/nav/classification/1479225 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The online version of this and other articles can be found at the Repository of the Johannes Kepler University, Linz <http://epub.jku.at/nav/classification/1479225> Begutachtet.at is an open-access platform at the library of the Johannes Kepler University, Linz. Papers may be copied, distributed, displayed, performed and modified according to the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Angolan Civil War – A Cold War Microcosm? Thomas Schwärzler1 ABSTRACT: Following the independence of Angola in 1975, the country descended into a decades- lasting civil war between three indigenous movements who previously had fought for independence from Portugal. The first period of the civil war from 1975 until 1988 was characterized by significant involvements from several international actors, including South Africa, Cuba, the United States and the Soviet Union. Especially the involvement of the two superpowers and the dominating nature of the Cold War in international politics in the second half of the 20th century, raises the question, whether the Angolan civil war was a proxy war of the Global Cold War. Particularly the involvement of South Africa casts doubt on this notion since the apartheid-regime directed vast recourses towards preventing majority-ruled countries in southern Africa from consolidating their power to protect its domestic sociopolitical system. -
Conditions Affecting the Outcome of Peace Operations in Post-Cold War Africa" (2019)
University of Denver Digital Commons @ DU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate Studies 1-1-2019 Conditions Affecting the Outcome of Peace Operations in Post- Cold War Africa Aaron Kyle Smith University of Denver Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd Part of the Military, War, and Peace Commons, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Commons Recommended Citation Smith, Aaron Kyle, "Conditions Affecting the Outcome of Peace Operations in Post-Cold War Africa" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1621. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1621 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate Studies at Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact [email protected],[email protected]. CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE OUTCOME OF PEACE OPERATIONS IN POST-COLD WAR AFRICA __________ The Faculty of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies University of Denver __________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts __________ by Aaron K. Smith June 2019 Advisor: Dr. Karen Feste © Copyright by Aaron K. Smith 2019 All Rights Reserved Author: Aaron K. Smith Title: CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE OUTCOME OF PEACE OPERATIONS IN POST-COLD WAR AFRICA Advisor: Dr. Karen Feste Degree Date: June 2019 Abstract What factors have led to successful outcomes in international peace operations conducted in Sub Saharan African countries? What factors explain mission failure? I proposed a basic theory of peace operations that linked conflict conditions to mandate design to the capability of an intervening force deployed for mission implementation developed from arguments and empirical results of previous research. -
World History, Part – 2 Visionias ™
https://t.me/UPSC_PDF Website ➡ https://upscpdf.com https://t.me/UPSC_PDF VISION IAS ™ www.visionias.in www.visionias.wordpress.com WORLD HISTORY, PART – 2 (Supplementary Material) Table of Contents 1] What were the factors that caused the Second World War? ........................................................................................ 4 2] Summary of Events during the World War II ................................................................................................................. 5 3] Important Events and Analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 6 4] Role of the Navy in WWII ........................................................................................................................................... 11 5] Role of Air-force in Allied victory in WWII .................................................................................................................. 12 6] Axis Defeated (July 1943-5) ........................................................................................................................................ 12 7] Why Axis Powers lost the World War II ...................................................................................................................... 13 8] Impact of World War II ............................................................................................................................................... 13 9] Different Socio-Economic Systems............................................................................................................................. -
The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent by Fred Bridgland
2018-053 26 June 2018 The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent by Fred Bridgland . Rev. ed. Philadelphia: Casemate, 2017. Pp. 501. ISBN 978–1–61200–492–1. Review by Blake Whitaker, Charlottesville, VA ([email protected]). Thomas Ricks recently described the South African Border War as a conflict “we don’t know about.” 1 Scholars of African history in the West often see it as the Namibian War of Independence or part of the Angolan Civil War. However, the apartheid government in South Africa saw these conflicts as intertwined in one very long war. But even white South Africans found (and still find) the war hard to explain. News coverage of the war was tightly controlled and the civilian popula- tion was not well informed about what was going on, even though a generation of white South African men was being conscripted into service. The War for Africa concentrates on the last year of combat operations in the South African Border War, especially those of South African forces and Angolan units supported by both Cuba and the USSR. Its author, veteran journalist Fred Bridgland,2 writes from the South African per- spective, using many interviews with former members of the apartheid-era South African Defence Force (SADF) and Jonas Savimbi’s National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). First published in 1990, just before the end of apartheid in South Africa, the book now appears in a revised edition featuring an updated preface, revised epilogue, and postscript. It remains a well researched operational history of the SADF campaign, with a close focus on the men who ex- perienced the conflict at firsthand. -
Transnationalism and Genealogy
Transnationalism and Genealogy Edited by Philip Q. Yang Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Genealogy www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy Transnationalism and Genealogy Transnationalism and Genealogy Special Issue Editor Philip Q. Yang MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editor Philip Q. Yang Department of Sociology, Texas Woman’s University USA Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Genealogy (ISSN 2313-5778) in 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genealogy/special issues/ transnationalism). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03921-908-7 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03921-909-4 (PDF) c 2020 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editor ...................................... vii Philip Q. Yang Transnationalism and Genealogy: An Introduction Reprinted from: Genealogy 2019, 3, 49, doi:10.3390/genealogy3030049 ................ 1 Angellar Manguvo Emancipating the “Kin beyond the Sea”: Reciprocity between Continental and Diasporic Africans’ Struggles for Freedom Reprinted from: Genealogy 2019, 3, 12, doi:10.3390/genealogy3010012 ............... -
BOAT PEOPLE ANAGE' INVE! Grant, Bruce Book Penguin JI Penguin Bwb the Boat Kople Y W an 'Age' Inwst~Dtian
THE BOAT PEOPLE ANAGE' INVE! Grant, Bruce book Penguin JI Penguin Bwb The Boat kople Y w An 'Age' Inwst~dtian Bruce Grant, author, diplomat and intcrmtionai affeirs writer, was born i kr131,Western Auamlia, in 1925. He was foreign correspondent in Europc, Aaia and America (1954-65), Nicman Fellow at Harvard University (l958), Fellow in Political Science at Melbourne University (1965-68), columnigt for L the Age (1968-72) and Ausaalian High Commissioner in India (1973-761, His publicwiona include Zndorresia, i'k Criris The Secun'~of SOYIJI- Eat Ark, fiction in leading journsl~such as the New Yorb, and I nwel, ChyBh, to be published in 1980. The ktPwpls draws on the repotts of foreign correspcndcna of the Aus- mlian newspaper, the Age, which undenwk this rpeci~lintmitiond inveb- ligation into the events behind the refugee crisis. The boat pcople's story I pivoted on South-Fast Asia, where correspndenr Michael Richrdm has I ken following dcvelopmcnts and filing authoritative reports for sevm yean. He uawlled cxtensivcly throughout the region to inmicw, research and repon for this book. Conuibutom: Crcighton Burns (USA);Jennifer Byrnc (Canada); John Slcc (Japan); John Hodfman (Chh); Sunanda Dattu-Ray (India); Dcv Murarkn (USSR); hvid Mitchell and David Young (New Zealand); huick Royce (London); Chris- topher Mc~y(Sweden); Robin Smytb (Fmncc); Colirr Smith (L'SA); Rttxccu Bnttirs and Lindsay Murdoch (Aulsrralia). THE CELLAR DOQK SHC)@ PapinBooks Ltd, Harmwdrwnnh, Middkwr, Hnghd Preface vii kW -1 Inuoduction 1 623 Msdiwn Avenue. Ntw Brk N.Y 10022, U.S.A. Rnguin Rmks Aulmlia Ltd, 1 Landfall 7 487 Mamodah Hibway Rinpood.