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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Smuts is turning over in his grave, now.
Jan Smuts was not English. He was an Afrikaner and fought on the Boer side in the Anglo-Boer War. I have no doubt Smuts admired Lettow-Vorbeck, but that was at least in part because Lettow-Vorbeck was copying the guerrilla warfare tactics of Smuts and other Boers that gave us the word commando.
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According to Hoyt, Smuts was in denial and lied to the english powers that be. And he never turned Letto's tactics against him. Apparently part of the problem was the Afrikaaner's racism and refusal to use African soldiers in any sort of significant role because they were Black. Same with Van Deventer to a lesser degree.
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