South Africa’s strategic balance: a path to reshaped NATO engagement?
Source: NATO. NATO’s Chair of the Military Committee, with military top officers from South Africa, Lesotho and Ivory Coast, at the US Africom African Chiefs of Defense Conference, 24-26 June 2024.
Traditionally, situated outside NATO’s geographic and defence remit, apartheid-era South Africa engaged in restricted and covert Cold War-era cooperation with select members of the alliance as a countermeasure to Soviet…