General Sechele�s docrine of war

First, it was the consolidation of his own tribe and next the alliance with other tribes which resulted in the creation of what we can comfortably call the embryonic conception of modern day Botswana.

When he took over power, he was determined to build the essence of loyalty from his tribe because of the experience of his father’s assasination when he was around 12 years of age. At the time, General Sechele could not raise a sufficient number of able-bodied men to secure his entire territory. The reason for this was that after his father’s assassination, several Bakwena subjects were scattered in the entire Kweneng country and beyond.