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The South African Defence Review 2012 was a policy review process carried out by a panel of experts, chaired by retired politician and former Minister of Defence, Roelf Meyer. The review was commissioned by Lindiwe Sisulu the then Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, in July 2011. The review was motivated by the need to correct the errors and shortcomings of the previous review. == The 1998 Defence Review and its consequences == The previous Defence Review, performed by management consultants from Deloitte and Touche in 1998, which forms the basis of current defence policy, resulted a number of serious problems. * Aging lower ranks and medically unfit personnel cannot be discharged due to enlistment contracts being based on civil service employment principles. * Inadequate provision for expeditionary/foreign deployment capacity. The review in fact assumed the SANDF would not perform any foreign deployments. The reality is however that the SANDF has been and still is heavily engaged in United Nations and African Union peacekeeping and enforcement operations (see the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade for example) in numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This oversight has necessitated the expensive chartering of foreign civilian heavy airlifters to support the deployed troops. * "Corporatised" structure not suited to military operational requirements - South African Army brigade and division structures were abolished and replaced by separate "formations" by role such as infantry, armour, intelligence, training, artillery, engineers, etc. This created a "silo" structural system which complicated and hindered interaction and integration of the different elements. Deane-Peter Baker of the South African Institute for Security Studies said that the D&T plan, while alleviating, to an extent, the mistrust of the new South African leadership of the remaining apartheid-era South African Defence Force personnel in middle management positions, reduced the combat effectiveness of the Army, and was seen by 2011 as a mistake, as was the decision to limit the force design of the SANDF to rely on short logistic lines for highly mechanised mobile forces in defence of national territory, as it causes many supply issues during modern foreign deployments. This is one of the major problems of the army and various solutions are being considered by the government to better equip forces deployed in out-of-area force projection operations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.issafrica.org/pubs/Books/Evol_Revol%20Oct%2005/Chap9.pdf )〕 * "Top heavy" command structure (generals/troops ratio too high) According to defence minister Lindiwe Sisulu, the old report was no longer relevant to South Africa's current situation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Draft Defence Review report released )〕 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 African Defence Review 2012」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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