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 * Frankel, P. 1984.** **//Pretoria’s Praetorians: Civil- military relations in South Africa.//** **Cambridge University Press**

Within South Africa's white elite, the military, in alliance with business leaders and technocrats in the bureaucratic and executive arms of government, has emerged from virtual political obscurity to play a major role in shaping contemporary society. This first full-scale study of the South African military as a racially heterogeneous agent of the white state examines the origins of this development, with its capacity to alter the delicate balance between evolution and revolution. Set firmly in a framework deriving from the most recent literature on civil-military relations, **it analyses the ideological and practical mechanics of the 'Total Strategy' enunciated as a programme for counter-revolution by the military establishment, and seeks to determine the consequences of militarisation for political and social relations** in current and future South African society.
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 * ISBN:** 0521264405

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