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In early April 2006, scouts from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks discovered the unmistakable signs of commercial poaching in a remote corner of Botswana’s Chobe National Park. Three elephant carcasses lay sprawled over a small area, their tusks removed and their bodies riddled with gunshot wounds. Continuing their search of the area, the scouts soon discovered a hidden cache of elephant ivory. They reported their find to Major R. Makgato, the military commander at Kasane Base Camp. Makgato quickly organized an ambush patrol.
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See, for purposes of comparison, Glenn P. Hastedt, American Foreign Policy: Past, Present and Future, 5th ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003); and John Spanier and Robert L. Wendzel, Games Nations Play, 9th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1996).
Clark Gibson, Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 58–65.
It is interesting to see how other countries are attempting to define novel military roles and missions in the new security environment of the early twenty-first century. Here, Botswana could offer valuable insights from its own experience. See, for instance, Rocky Williams, “Defence in a Democracy: The South African Defence Review and the Redefinition of the Parameters of the National Defence Debate,” in Ourselves to Know, ed. R. Williams, G. Cawthra, and D. Abrahams (Pretoria, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies, 2003), 205–23; and Alfred A. Valenzuela and Victor M. Rosello, “Expanding Roles and Missions in the War on Drugs and Terrorism,” Military Review 84 (March–April 2004): 28–35.
For a more detailed warning of this danger, see Louis W. Goodman, “Military Roles Past and Present,” in Civil-Military Relations and Democracy, ed. L. Diamond and M. Plattner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 37–42.
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Henk, D. (2007). Lessons from Botswana. In: The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment. Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610446_8
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