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The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration
Bibliography: pages 208-220.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/21147 The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration Selfe, James Schrire, Robert A National Security Management System (South Africa) Internal security - South Africa National security - South Africa Bibliography: pages 208-220. In the years after Mr P W Botha became Prime Minister of South Africa, it became generally noticed that the military as an ins ti tu ti on had become a more important actor within the central decision-making structures. While this excited a great deal of contemporary comment, few appreciated that this represented not necessarily a formal coup, but rather the culmination of a meticulously planned counter-revolutionary strategy - the response of the Botha government to a perceived "total onslaught". This study traces the rise of the "total onslaught" rhetoric and links it to changes which occurred in the security intelligence apparatus. It describes the structure of the National Security Management System (NSMS) in detail, and it advances various arguments in an attempt to assess the significance of the changes which have occurred in the decision-making structures, as well as the efficacy and durability of the NSMS. The study concludes that, because of the dedication of its proponents and because of its efficiency, the NSMS may afford the regime a breathing-space, but that ultimately the international environment, and internal demographic and economic pressures are such as to make the degenerative collapse of the regime a more likely long-term scenario. 2016-08-05T10:52:42Z 2016-08-05T10:52:42Z 1987 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21147 eng application/pdf Department of Political Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | National Security Management System (South Africa) Internal security - South Africa National security - South Africa Selfe, James The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| title_full | The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| title_fullStr | The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| title_full_unstemmed | The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| title_short | The total onslaught and the total strategy : adaptations to the security intelligence decision-making structures under P.W. Botha's administration |
| title_sort | total onslaught and the total strategy adaptations to the security intelligence decision making structures under p w botha s administration |
| topic | National Security Management System (South Africa) Internal security - South Africa National security - South Africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21147 |
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