LESSONS FROM THE BOER WAR

dc.creator	C. De Jong
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:18Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/19-4-375
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/54f7c8e39b7e483babef3fdc2b55e561
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/8889
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/54f7c8e39b7e483babef3fdc2b55e561
dc.description	<p><strong>Review of: Jay Stone and Erwin A. Schmidl, <em>The Boer War and Military reforms, </em>Volume 28 of the<em> </em>series "War and Society of East Central Europe",<em> </em>University Press of America, Lanham: New York<em> </em></strong><strong>- London, 1988, 345 pp.</strong></p> <p>Numerous studies exist of the lessons to be learnt from the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by students of 20th Century Warfare. These studies date back from the days of that war up to the present. In many cases these studies are titled "Lessons from the Boer War". In the book under review Jay Stone examines the War's impact on Britain and Erwin Schmidl its effect in Austria-Hungary. I shall confine this review to Stone's findings. According to him Britain entered the war full of self-confidence in the hope of terminating the conflict within a few weeks, but was totally unprepared. The reason was that the last war she waged against a European power was as long ago as 1855-56. That was the Crimean War against Russia. Thereafter she had fought only local, colonial wars against badly drilled, little disciplined and primitively armed non-European armies. Some of these used to attack in large hordes and were shot or ridden down <em>en</em> <em>masse. </em>This had happened recently at Omdurman in 1898 where Kitchener defeated the Sudanese. The British ultimately were victorious in all the colonial wars.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/375
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 19, Iss 4 (2012)
dc.subject	War's impact on Britain
dc.subject	little disciplined and primitively armed non-European armies
dc.subject	Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
dc.subject	Jay Stone
dc.subject	Erwin A. Schmidl
dc.subject	The Boer War and Military reforms
dc.subject	Crimean War against Russia
dc.subject	Military Science
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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
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dc.title	LESSONS FROM THE BOER WAR
dc.type	Article