... comprehensive in its coverage, exacting in its standards of description and interpretation, and almost faultless in its use of source material and existing literature... -- Anti-Apartheid News

... an excellent compendium of information on the military and economic power that South Africa applies in dealing with its neighbors. -- Foreign Service Journal

... important for the shaping of Western policy toward South Africa. -- The Book Exchange

... impressive... indispensable. -- Third World Book Review

This is a very important book. -- Social Dynamics

Hanlon pieces together the details of South Africa's military attacks on its neighbors and relates them to the control the South African state exercises through its economic power.