Programs

Market Overview

Botswana can be characterized as a small military market, with some prospects in particular areas. As noted elsewhere in this report, Botswana does not have very many urgent military needs. The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) was stood up in the 1970s and 1980s to respond to potential conventional threats, but improving political relations with its neighbors throughout the 1990s has virtually eliminated the possibility of invasion from a peer military force. At...