Military of Botswana (1983: Doomsday)

Having survived doomsday relatively unharmed botswana has retained its military and it remains around pre-war strengths.

Pre Doomsday
At the time of independence Botswana had no armed forces. It was only after attacks from the Rhodesian and South African armies that the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) was formed in self-defence in 1977. The president is commander in chief and appoints a defence council. The BDF has approximately 12,000 members.

Doomsday
On doomsday the BDF was conducting operations in the ocavango delta as part of a self defense operation to show neerby countrys that botswana could hold its own in a war.However a sizeable proportion of the army was still stationed outside Gaborone at the time of the strike.Around a third of the botswanan defense force was wiped out