African Navies

Author : Timothy Stapleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000782875

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African Navies by Timothy Stapleton Pdf

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent’s states and several strategic choke points for international shipping, such as the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden and the Cape of Good Hope. Nevertheless, post-colonial Africa’s small navies and their relations with the navies of external powers have not received much scholarly attention. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, this collection attempts to address this neglect and stimulate further research by offering original chapters related to historical and contemporary themes around Africa’s navies. The historical chapters cover the origin of the Tanzanian, Ethiopian, Nigerian and Ghana navies during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, the asymmetrical naval campaign fought during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70), and the activities of the Soviet Navy in supporting African states and movements fighting lingering colonialism and white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on the contemporary situation, other chapters discuss the engagement of the Indian Navy with Africa, the potential role of the Angolan and Mozambican navies in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the transformation and development of the post-apartheid South African Navy, and the challenges and capabilities of African navies in the early twenty-first century. The book concludes by discussing the question of whether African coastal countries need navies. This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, strategic studies, African politics and International Relations. Chapters 1, 2, 6 and 8 of this book are available for free in Open Access at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Martin Edmonds,Greg Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Navies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110903064

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South Africa and Naval Power at the Millennium by Martin Edmonds,Greg Mills Pdf

Author : Thomas Mandrup,Francois Vre˜
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781920689582

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Towards Good Order at Sea by Thomas Mandrup,Francois Vre˜ Pdf

The problems originating from the resultant ?bad order at sea? can be directly felt on land, when smuggling, terrorism and related criminal activities operate more or less unhindered. The book provides an important mapping of the challenges preventing good order at sea off the African coast and East Africa in particular. ÿ- Rear Admiral N. Wang, Commandant Royal Danish Defence College

Author : Allan Du Toit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Warships
ISBN : UCAL:B4258811

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Ships of the South African Navy by Allan Du Toit Pdf

Author : Donald L. Canney
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597974646

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Africa Squadron by Donald L. Canney Pdf

Donald L. CanneyOCOs study is the first book-length history of the U.S. NavyOCOs Africa Squadron. Established in 1842 to enforce the ban on importing slaves to the United States, in twenty yearsOCO time the squadron proved ineffective. To officers and enlisted men alike, duty in the squadron was unpopular. The equatorial climate, departmental neglect, and judicial indifference, which allowed slavers back at sea, all contributed to the sailorsOCO frustration. Later, the most damaging allegation was that the squadron had failed at its mission. Canney investigates how this unit earned a poor reputation and whether it is deserved. Though U.S. warships seized slave vessels as early as 1800, four decades passed before the Navy established a permanent squadron off the western coast of Africa to interdict U.S.-flag vessels participating in this trade. Canney traces the NavyOCOs role in interdicting the slave trade, Great BritainOCOs pressure on the U.S. government to curb slave traffic, the creation of the squadron, and how individual politicians, department secretaries, captains, and squadron commanders interpreted the laws and orders from higher authorities, changing squadron operations. While famous ships and captains served on this station, none won distinction in the Africa Squadron. In the final analysis, the squadron was unsuccessful, even though it was the NavyOCOs only permanent squadron with a specific, congressionally mandated mission: to maintain a quasi-blockade on a foreign shore. While Canney exonerates southern-born naval captains, who approached their work as diligently as their counterparts from the north, he demonstrates how the secretaries of the NavyOCopro-slavery southern politiciansOConeglected the squadron."

Author : Bruce E. Arlinghaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429725784

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African Armies by Bruce E. Arlinghaus Pdf

African armies have undergone significant changes since African nations won independence from colonial rule. Once mainly small constabulary forces relegated to the maintenance of internal order, these armies have become larger, more modern institutions, largely in response to growing external security threats. Previous analyses have focused on African military units as political actors, with little or no attention paid to their actual abilities and desires to perform defense functions. This study examines the evolution of African armed forces, their impact on the societies in which they operate, and their current capabilities, with special attention to their effectiveness as military institutions.

Author : Allan Du Toit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002314117

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South Africa's Fighting Ships by Allan Du Toit Pdf

Author : Thean Potgieter,Reiner Pommerin
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920338053

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Maritime Security in Southern African Waters by Thean Potgieter,Reiner Pommerin Pdf

Two thirds of the world population lies within 60 kilometres of the sea. Much of the well-being of our planet is dependent on the sea, as the bulk of international trade passes across oceans and through ports, while the sea is a rich source of protein and contains profound wealth in terms of energy and natural sources. Inevitably, economic stability and development are therefore closely linked to maritime security. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference on ?Maritime Security in Southern African Waters? in Stellenbosch on 22-23 July 2008.

Author : Érico Duarte,Manuel Correia de Barros
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030106003

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Navies and Maritime Policies in the South Atlantic by Érico Duarte,Manuel Correia de Barros Pdf

This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa. Additionally, it provides comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the interplay among national interests in the processes of demarcation of limits of the continental shelf and contention among Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, and the United Kingdom in the Southern Atlantic and the Antarctica. This book will interest scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, regional studies, foreign and defense policy, and maritime security.

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136257865

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The Navy and the Slave Trade by Christopher Lloyd Pdf

This work shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.

Author : Greg Mills,South African Institute of International Affairs,University of Lancaster. Centre for Defence and International Security Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070561134

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Maritime Policy for Developing Nations by Greg Mills,South African Institute of International Affairs,University of Lancaster. Centre for Defence and International Security Studies Pdf

Author : C. J. Harris
Publisher : Ashanti Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081024049

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War at Sea by C. J. Harris Pdf

Author : Anthony Sullivan
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526717955

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Britain's War Against the Slave Trade by Anthony Sullivan Pdf

The true story of the Royal Navy’s sixty-year campaign to stop slavery across the British Empire, decades before the American Civil War. Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across Africa the buying and selling of slaves was widespread. There was, at the time, nothing unusual in Britain’s somewhat belated entry into the slave trade, transporting natives from Africa’s west coast to the plantations of the New World. What was unusual was Britain’s decision, in 1807, to ban the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Britain later persuaded other countries to follow suit, but this did not stop this lucrative business. So the Royal Navy went to war against the slavers, in due course establishing the West Africa Squadron, which was based at Freetown in Sierra Leone. This force grew throughout the nineteenth century until a sixth of the Royal Navy’s ships and marines was employed in the battle against the slave trade. Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. In Britain’s War Against the Slave Trade, naval historian Anthony Sullivan reveals the story behind this little-known campaign. Whereas Britain is usually, and justifiably, condemned for its earlier involvement in the slave trade, the truth is that in time the Royal Navy undertook a major and expensive operation to end what was, and is, an evil business.

Author : Graham A. Thomas
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781844683581

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Pirate Killers by Graham A. Thomas Pdf

One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had done for centuries and they terrorized the populations of the coastal towns. To them, piracy was a way of life, and the great sea-powers of the day couldnt stop them. Then, in one of the most remarkable and neglected anti-piracy operations in maritime history, the Royal Navy confronted them, defeated them and made the seas safe for trade. This is the subject of Graham A. Thomass compelling new study of one of the most pernicious episodes in the history of African piracy. As he tells this compelling story, he uncovers the long tradition of piracy and privateering along the African shore. Vividly he describes attacks not only in the Mediterranean but also on the other side of the continent, along the shores of West Africa and around Madagascar. But perhaps the most telling sections of his narrative concern critical engagements that stand out from the story the daring rescue of the British merchant ship The Three Sisters by HMS Polyphemus in 1848 and the actions of the battleship HMS Prometheus against the Rif pirates a few years later. His account is based on documents held at the National Archives and other original sources. It gives a fascinating inside view into the way in which the Royal Navy responded to the menace of piracy in the nineteenth century.

Author : Tim Murithi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136636950

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Handbook of Africa's International Relations by Tim Murithi Pdf

Africa’s international relations have often been defined and oriented by the dominant international and geopolitical agendas of the day. In the aftermath of colonialism the Cold War became a dominant paradigm that defined the nature of the continent’s relationship with the rest of the world. The contemporary forces of globalization are now exerting an undue influence and impact upon Africa’s international relations. Increasingly, the African continent is emerging as a vocal, and in some respects an influential, actor in international relations. There is a paucity of analysis and research on this emerging trend. This timely book proposes to fill this analytical gap by engaging with a wide range of issues, with chapters written by experts on a variety of themes. The emerging political prominence of the African continent on the world stage is predicated on an evolving internal process of continental integration. In particular, there are normative and policy efforts to revive the spirit of Pan-Africanism: the 21st century is witnessing the evolution of Pan-Africanism, notably through the constitution and establishment of the African Union (AU). Given the fact that there is a dearth of analysis on this phenomemon, this volume will also interrogate the notion of Pan-Africanism through various lenses – notably peace and security, development, the environment and trade. The volume will also engage with the emerging role of the AU as an international actor, e.g. with regard to its role in the reform of the United Nations Security Council, climate change, the International Criminal Court (ICC), the treaty establishing Africa as a nuclear-free zone, Internally Displaced Persons, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), international trade, the environment, public health issues, security, and development issues. This book will assess how the AU’s role as an international actor is complicated by the difficulty of promoting consensus among African states and then maintaining that consensus in the face of often divergent national interests. This book will in part assess the role of the AU in articulating collective and joint policies and in making interventions in international decision and policy-making circles. The Handbook will also assess the role of African social movements and their relationship with global actors. The role of African citizens in ameliorating their own conditions is often underplayed in the international relations discourse, and this volume will seek to redress this oversight. Throughout the book the various chapters will also assess the role that these citizen linkages have contributed towards continental integration and in confronting the challenges of globalization.