FROM THE EDITORS

dc.creator	Abel Esterhuyse
dc.creator	Ian Liebenberg
dc.date	2011-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:08:36Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:08:36Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/38-2-86
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/abda8c53497d4a018fa30efcfe2f998f
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8345
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/abda8c53497d4a018fa30efcfe2f998f
dc.description	Editors of academic journals are confronted with choices and trade-offs.<br />A wide variety of factors are influencing the choice of articles and themes for a<br />particular edition. Scientia Militaria, the South African Journal for Military Studies,<br />is a journal with a particular focus and covers a wide spectrum of military-related<br />topics. As an academic discipline, Military Science, though, is characterised by its<br />interdisciplinary nature. This interdisciplinary nature is once again demonstrated<br />through the variety of articles in this particular edition.<br />Prof. William Dean from the US Air Command and Staff contributed an<br />interesting article on morale among French colonial troops on the Western Front<br />during the First World War. He pointed out that the traditional images of the French<br />Army on the Western Front during the First World War have been that of the<br />grizzled yet determined French peasant or worker. However, recent research<br />portrays a different view of the French Army on the Western Front. Dean’s article<br />provides an overview of the morale of the 600 000 men from across the French<br />empire who served in the frontline and in logistics units in France. Bringing these<br />colonial soldiers to a foreign country and culture to fight in a new type of horrific<br />war was strenuous, while at the time perhaps not contentious. The article provides<br />an impressionistic overview of the morale of these colonial forces in France. The<br />author argues conclusively that the French colonial empire paid a high price in the<br />war. The colonies were economically and demographically dislocated and the<br />returning colonial veterans of the First World War played a part in the growing<br />nationalism of the inter-war years. Their experiences and views contributed towards<br />the setting of the stage for post-1945 revolutions in the French empire.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/86
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 38, Iss 2 (2011)
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.title	FROM THE EDITORS
dc.type	Article