Antonio Garcia, Author at THE HISTORY AVENUE

Author: Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia, is a civil servant, who additionally holds non-resident positions as a research fellow at Stellenbosch University, visiting lecturer at Durham University, and tutor at the Open University. As a combat engineer in the SANDF, Antonio has served in missions in the Sudan, the DRC, and South Africa and its borders. He has published widely on military history and strategy.

Using ‘Whiteness’: Defeating the Apartheid Intelligence System (1)

Following the Rivonia Trial in 1964, the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) were either in prison serving life sentences or in exile. Their underground organisation was crushed. The mass organisations of the African people were banned. A young saboteur from Durban, Ronnie Kasrils, was tasked by Oliver Tambo with finding a way to carry out propaganda exercises in South Africa keeping the name of the ANC alive while they regrouped and reorganised.

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Combat Trauma – A Not-So-New Phenomenon

Before the launch of Number 788 and conscious of the impacts of conflict and trauma especially those caused by war, and other military operations, your war diarists wanted to publish a column on combat trauma & PTSD.

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The Dawn of the Special Purpose Units & the International Ranger Platoon

This was the dawn of the International Ranger Platoon that formed the embryo of the future Swedish Special Forces.

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Ukraine: Managing in Times of War

‘What is next for you Tony’, Kostia asks. Almost an impossible question, he opens up an unending possibility of answers.

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A Snap Shot of War from the Diaries and Letters of Generals and Soldiers

Our reflections on war are captured in different ways. The diaries of generals often read like the works of ancient Greek heroes. Brimming with purpose and almost unconscious of the human cost, they sometimes win and often lose, crushed by the Herculean weight that they try to lift.