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Military History Journal
The South African
Military History Society
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereniging
Ditsong National Museum of Military History
General J C Smuts in East Africa observing the departure of German trains.
(Photo: Ditsong National Museum of Military History, Saxonwold, Johannesburgt).
Introduction
It is as a statesman and philosopher that Field-Marshal Jan Christian Smuts is mostly remembered. Others would describe him as a politician.
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He saw himself as being a general in his spare time (Hancock, 1962, p 107). However, few have tried to assess the competence of this part-time general. Importantly, Louis Botha, J C Smuts and J L van Deventer were the only South Africans to be commanders-inchief in a theatre of operations in either of the two world wars.
Smuts's reputation as a general in the East African Campaign of the First World War is not good.
Some of the criticism comes from the revelations by his erstwhile