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defenceWeb Written by Justin Cronje - In this week’s edition, international military expenditure is not affected by COVID-19, the Cabo Delgado insurgency highlights the need for an adequately funded SA National defence force, the SADC has a “responsibility” to help Mozambique and the United Democratic Movement asks the Defence Portfolio Committee to investigate apparent Ministerial financial abuse. In SANDF news, 15 SA Infantry Battalion’s DRC deployment could last longer, new Reserve Force insignia is still on the to-do list and power cuts at SANDF bases and facilities a...

Great Power Competition Demands Revitalization of America’s Military Sealift The United States needs to ensure it can move its soldiers, weapons, material, and supplies around the world in the event of a major crisis. In an era of great power competition, the U.S. military has had to relearn a number of strategic facts. Perhaps the most important of these is the central role that sealift has played in America’s ability to project power abroad. During the Cold War, the U.S. was able to not only deploy large forces overseas but move and sustain entire armies around the world. Today, 90 per...

New Reserve Force insignia still on the to-do list Written by defenceWeb - SA Army Reserve URTP volunteers. All is not smooth sailing when it comes to the new names of 52 SA Army Reserve Force units, with old insignia and uniform, in some cases, declared off-limits on parade grounds and no changes yet made to cap/beret badges, shoulder flashes and other identifying insignia. When the name changes were announced in August 2019, it was made clear established uniforms such as the Transvaal Scottish kilts would not be part of the “new order” of the landward force’s part-time component. Ren...

Thousand plus Reserves find full-time employment with Correctional Services Written by defenceWeb - 283 The military skillset is in demand, by at least the Department of Justice and Correctional Services, which earlier this year welcomed over 1 200 Reserve Force staffers to its ranks. The departure of part-time soldiers from the reserve component of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) – mostly in search of full-time employment rather than the part-time call-up available in Defence Reserves – was mooted last November. That was when the Reserve Force indicated it was “assisting” the ...

ILOILO CITY, April 13 (PIA) – A total of 199 Probationary Officers successfully completed the four-month training at Camp Peralta Jamindan Capiz. The closing ceremony of the Probationary Officer Training Course (POTC) was held on April 8, 2021 with 3rd Infantry Division Commander, Major General Eric Vinoya as guest of honor and speaker, said 3ID Public Affairs Office chief Major Cenon Pancito III in a press release. Topping the "Gumilab" Class 58- 2020, which is composed of 60 males and 59 females, is Probationary 2nd Lieutenant Analyn Catalan who obtained a general average rating of of 91....