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| "In 1987, in souteastern Angola, the South African Defence Force deployed a 3000 man mobile strike force to defeat a combined Angolan / Cuban division size force intent on destroying the Unita resistance movement. The campaign's military outcome convinced the Cubans and Soviets and Cubans to settle the 23 year Angolan border war and the political future of Namibia on a political venue rather than by force of arms. Operation Modular highlights the potential of small, mobile, hard hitting fighting columns in a small war environment." - Major Michael F. Morris USMC, Flying columns in Small Wars. An OMFTS Model. |
| "A Boer commando traveled light, light and fast. DeWet's commando moved like a hunting cat on the veld...It was not a majestic fighting machine, like a British column, it was a fighting animal all mussle and bone: in one sence the most proffesional combatant of the War" - Thomas Pakeham, The Boer War. |
| "South African military doctrine was unique. It derived partly from its own colonial experience against the Zulus and other African foes. Certainly the South African style of warfare also enshrined the flexibility, toughness, and mobility exhibited by the Boers in their 3-year conflict with the British at the turn of the century. It aslo drew heavily on lessons learned while serving alongside British Forces in both World Wars. South African soldiers earned widespread acclaim for their performance as raiders in the Long Range Desert Group, pilots in the RAF, andd assault infantry in Northern Africa and Italy." - Major Michael F. Morris USMC, Flying columns in Small Wars. An OMFTS Model. |
| "...enemy forces are consistantly forces to group together in order to protect or defend their important...infrastructures...This enables smaller, highly mobile forces to act effectively. They are able to surround, penetrate and overpower them (like a pack of hyenas attacking a much stronger buffalo). Several external offensive operations conducted by the South African forces during recent years have confirmed the above fact. Although not thought possible - fast, mobile, mechanised forces can move with freedom and nerve in close proximity of enemy forces who are clustered around their own defense stronghold" - Colonel Roland de Vries, SADF, Chief of Staff 20 Brigade. |
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