Koevoet: Volume 1 - South West African Police Counter-Insurgency Operations During the South African Border War 1978-1984

Koevoet chronicles the origins and deployment of a formidable counter-insurgency unit within the South West African Police.

Koevoet (Afrikaans for ‘Crowbar’) tells of the origination and deployment of the South West African Police’s elite counter-insurgency capability during the South African Border War of 1978–1989. Drawing upon previously unpublished sources and from interviews with a number of key personalities, including former members of Koevoet, this volume, the first of two, documents...