Ian LiebenbergIan Liebenberg is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Military Studies (CEMIS) at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University. He previously worked at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) as Director Reserch, the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) as senior analyst and lectured in sociology at the University of South Africa (Unisa). He edited and co-edited fifteen works and wrote more than a 100 articles some translated in Russian, German and Dutch. He contributed to numerous reports between 1998 and 2018 and is editor of A Far-Away War: Angola, 1976-1988. His research interests include auto-ethnography, the Angolan War, Southern African politics and liberation struggles. [orcid: 0000-0003-0351-9476] Read More Read Less