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|allegiance= |branch= South African Defence Force |type= |role= |size=10,100 (1981) 22,000 (1987) |command_structure=Department of Defence for South-West Africa |current_commander= |garrison= Windhoek, South-West Africa }} The South-West Africa Territorial Force (SWATF) was an auxiliary arm of the South African Defence Force and comprised the armed forces of South-West Africa (now Namibia) from 1977 to 1989. It emerged as a product of South Africa's political control of the territory which was granted to the former as a League of Nations mandate following World War I. ==History and Background== From 1966 until 1989, South African security forces waged a long and bitter counterinsurgency conflict against indigenous nationalists in what was then South-West Africa, represented by the Marxist South-West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). As the guerrilla war intensified, however, it became clear that civilian police alone were not enough to cope with SWAPO incursions and escalating unrest. Consequently, military units were deployed for the first time; 60,000 South African combat troops were engaged in South-West Africa by the late 1970s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South-West Africa Territorial Force」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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