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Abel Esterhuyse is hoof van die Departement Strategiese Studies in die Fakulteit Krygskunde, Universiteit Stellenbosch by die Militêre Akademie in Saldanha en ’n navorsingsgenoot van die Centre for Conflict, Rule of Law and Society (CRoLS) by die Universiteit van Bournemouth in Brittanje.

Hy is ’n boorling van Williston in die Karoo en skryf BMil (Honneurs) (Stellenbosch), BA Honneurs (Suid-Afrika), MMS (Pretoria) en PhD (Stellenbosch) agter sy naam.

Abel is ook ’n graduand van:

• die Senior Security Leadership Program van die Amerikaans-Afrika-Sentrum vir Strategiese Studies in Washington
• die United States Military Academy, West Point, se Program on Military History
• Columbia Universiteit (New York) se Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies se Program on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS).

As akademikus het hy reeds:

• by meer as 40 vakkongresse in 15 lande kon praat
• meer as 30 artikels in geakkrediteerde akademiese joernale gepubliseer
• nege boekhoofstukke die lig laat sien
• as redakteur van drie boekpublikasies opgetree.

Sy navorsing is in 2017 erken met ʼn gradering deur die Nasionale Navorsingstigting NRF); sy mees onlangse publikasie is getiteld The South African security predicament – making sense of objective realities.

Tussen 2010 en 2015 dien hy as redakteur van Scientia Militaria (http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/index).

Hy is bevoorreg om by verskeie universiteite en militêre akademies wêreldwyd te kon klasgee. Enkeles sluit in:

• Universiteit van Utrecht, Nederland
• Nederlandse Militêre Akademie, Breda
• Universiteit van New South Wales en Australiese Verdedigingsakademie, Canberra
• United States Military Academy, West Point
• Universiteit van Namibië, Windhoek
• Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
• Kenyatta-universiteit, Kenia
• Kennesaw State University, VSA
• University of North Georgia, VSA

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Abel Esterhuyse is a member of the Department of Strategic Studies in the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, at the South African Military Academy.

Holding a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch, he is also a graduate of the Senior Leadership Program of the African Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC, the Summer Program in Military History at the US Military Academy, West Point, and the Program on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS) of Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies in New York.

Before joining academia, Esterhuyse served as an officer in the South African army. A rated scientist of the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), he specialises in South African security and defence, military and strategic theory, and contemporary conflict.

His most recent publication is a co-authored journal article titled “South African defence decision-making: analysing dysfunctional approaches”.