Military intelligence � My personal experience (Part 2) :: Mmegi Online

The establishment of Botswana Defence Force through an act of Parliament in April 1977 was not only a milestone in the history of defence institutions but of the country at large. When BDF was formed at a time when the country’s needs were vast, the defence force had to stretch its budget as elastic as it could become.

Among the first units to be formed in the formative years of the defence force was the Military Intelligence headed by Major Fire Katse who had come from the old Police Mobile Unit (PMU) which was a paramilitary unit of Botswana Police Force. When I came into the military institution in 1990, there was some transcending transformation as most of the Old Guard from PMU were slowly vanishing from the ranks of BDF through a natural process of aging.

One attribute these old men possessed in common was wisdom, at least a majority of them. The New Guard of Officer Cadets some of whom had gone to the world’s finest military academy of Sandhurst which is only second to West Point in the US were itching for change. According to them, it was time the BDF conformed to being a military as opposed to being a police paramilitary wing. And they were right.

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