SADF 1980’s

South Africa is a vast country with extended borders and a long coastline that made great demands of the SADF. This meant that the SADF had to operate in an area and not along a front. This required special attention to logistics, strategic and tactical mobility, the need for blanket cover, decentralization of excecution and a night-fighting capability. Operational doctrine is the meeting ground between the broad imperatives of stratergy and the steady maxims of tactics, where if there is