Author : H. Ellert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : UVA:X001827317
The Rhodesian Front War
H. Ellert
The Rhodesian Front War
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The Rhodesian Front War
H. Ellert
Author : H. Ellert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082024717
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Fighting and Writing
Luise White
Author : Luise White
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478021285
Fighting and Writing by Luise White Pdf
In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964–1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minority rule in Africa long after other countries were independent, White finds a robust and contentious conversation about race, difference, and the war itself. These are writings by men who were ambivalent conscripts, generally aware of the futility of their fight—not brutal pawns flawlessly executing the orders and parroting the rhetoric of a racist regime. Moreover, most of these men insisted that the most important aspects of fighting a guerrilla war—tracking and hunting, knowledge of the land and of the ways of African society—were learned from black playmates in idealized rural childhoods. In these memoirs, African guerrillas never lost their association with the wild, even as white soldiers boasted of bringing Africans into the intimate spaces of regiment and regime.
The Rhodesian War
Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin
Author : Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811707251
The Rhodesian War by Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin Pdf
- The vicious conflict (1964-79) that brought Robert Mugabe to power in Zimbabwe - Expert coverage of the war, its historical context, and its aftermath - Descriptions of guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency operations, and actions by units like Grey's Scouts Amid the colonial upheaval of the 1960s, Britain urged its colony in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) to grant its black residents a greater role in governing the territory. The white-minority government refused and soon declared its independence, a move bitterly opposed by the black majority. The result was the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government against black nationalist groups, one of which was led by Robert Mugabe. Marked by unspeakable atrocities, the war ended in favor of the nationalists.
The Rhodesian War
Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin
Author : Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073617162
The Rhodesian War by Paul L. Moorcraft,Peter McLaughlin Pdf
"This classic account of the Rhodesian war has been revised and updated 25 years after it was originally published. Widely praised by military experts worldwide, it has become a standard text for the study of counter-insurgency, especially its application to the current 'war on terror' in Iraq and Afghanistan. It covers the three main stages of war. First from 1965 when the security forces were winning to a 'no-win' war from 1972-1976 and finally, the intense period from 1976-1979 when white Rhodesians, led by Ian Smith, were saved from defeat by the Lancaster House talks in London. The military structure, strategy and tactics of both sides are analysed with graphic details of individual contacts in the bush to the daring raids into neighboring states. The book also considers the international pressures on the rebel state and the social effects of the war inside the country on both blacks and whites. The immediate aftermath of the war is examined, in particular Zimbabwe's continuing conflict with South Africa pre-Nelson Mandela. The final chapter looks at the war from the perspective of the last three decades, especially in the light of Robert Mugabe's destruction of a once-prosperous land"--Jacket.
A Brutal State of Affairs
Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson
Author : Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781779223753
A Brutal State of Affairs by Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson Pdf
A Brutal State of Affairs analyses the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and challenges Rhodesian mythology. The story of the BSAP, where white and black officers were forced into a situation not of their own making, is critically examined. The liberation war in Rhodesia might never have happened but for the ascendency of the Rhodesian Front, prevailing racist attitudes, and the rise of white nationalists who thought their cause just. Blinded by nationalist fervour and the reassuring words of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and army commanders, the Smith government disregarded the advice of its intelligence services to reach a settlement before it was too late. By 1979, the Rhodesians were staring into the abyss, and the war was drawing to a close. Salisbury was virtually encircled, and guerrilla numbers continued to grow. A Brutal State of Affairs examines the Rhodesian legacy, the remarkable parallels of history, and suggests that Smiths Rhodesian template for rule has, in many instances, been assiduously applied by Mugabe and his successors.
Fire Force
Chris Cocks
Author : Chris Cocks
Publisher : Lime Tree Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798655021372
Fire Force by Chris Cocks Pdf
Fire Force is the account of Chris Cocks’s service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), during Zimbabwe’s civil war of the 1970s—a war that came to be known, almost innocuously, as ‘the bush war’. Fire Force, a tactic of total airborne/airmobile envelopment, was developed by the RLI, and became the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces in their struggle against the tide of the communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas. “Like Reitz’s work, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War, Fire Force, by first-time author Chris Cocks, is a personal account of close-quarter warfare. It is a unique, compelling, sometimes brutal account of a young conscript’s three years of service in the elite Rhodesian Light Infantry … Cocks’s work is one of the very few books which adequately describes the horrors of war in Africa … Fire Force is the best book on the Rhodesian War that I have read.” – Southern African Review of Books “Fire Force will be to the Rhodesian War what Remarque’s All Quiet on The Western Front was to World War I. A high claim indeed, but perhaps valid, for this moving book is a classic in any sense.” – The Star “The narrative is raw … it gives the book a veracity so complete that it will transport anyone involved in the ordeal back across the years with the force of a body blow … Rhodesia does at last have its own version of Michael Herr’s Vietnam experiences, Dispatches. A sense of regret is what really lingers, that the whole nightmare had to happen at all. The list of names of boys killed, or scarred physically and mentally, is moving beyond mere words.” – The Financial Mail
Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (RLE: Terrorism and Insurgency)
Jakkie Cilliers
Author : Jakkie Cilliers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317499251
Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia (RLE: Terrorism and Insurgency) by Jakkie Cilliers Pdf
When originally published in 1985 this volume was the first scholarly and objective contribution available on Rhodesian counter-insurgency. It documents and explains why Rhodesia lost the war. The origins of the conflict are reviewed; each chapter examines a separate institution or counter-insurgency strategy directly related to the development of the conflict, concluding with a summary view of the Rhodesian security situation both past and present.
Black Fire!
Michael Raeburn,Anthony R. Wilkinson
Author : Michael Raeburn,Anthony R. Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : UOM:39015002302506
Black Fire! by Michael Raeburn,Anthony R. Wilkinson Pdf
Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80
Kerrin Cocks
Author : Kerrin Cocks
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910294055
Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80 by Kerrin Cocks Pdf
On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation. As Communist-trained guerrillas flooded the country, the beleaguered Rhodesians, hard-pressed for manpower and military resources, were forced to devise new and innovative methods to combat the insurgency. Fire Force was their answer. Fire Force as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy, with the 20mm cannon being the principal weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), supported by ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys') and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate "killing machine".
A Brutal State of Affairs
Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson
Author : Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1779223730
A Brutal State of Affairs by Henrik Ellert,Malcolm Anderson Pdf
A Brutal State of Affairs analyses the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe and challenges Rhodesian mythology. The story of the BSAP, where white and black officers were forced into a situation not of their own making, is critically examined. The liberation war in Rhodesia might never have happened but for the ascendency of the Rhodesian Front, prevailing racist attitudes, and the rise of white nationalists who thought their cause just. Blinded by nationalist fervour and the reassuring words of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and army commanders, the Smith government disregarded the advice of its intelligence services to reach a settlement before it was too late. By 1979, the Rhodesians were staring into the abyss, and the war was drawing to a close. Salisbury was virtually encircled, and guerrilla numbers continued to grow. A Brutal State of Affairs examines the Rhodesian legacy, the remarkable parallels of history, and suggests that Smith's Rhodesian template for rule has, in many instances, been assiduously applied by Mugabe and his successors.
Exile Armies
M. Bennett,P. Latawski
Author : M. Bennett,P. Latawski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230522459
Exile Armies by M. Bennett,P. Latawski Pdf
Operating from outside their homelands, exile armies have been an understudied phenomenon in history and international politics. From avoiding the fate of being a mere tool for a patron power to facing issues regarding their military efficacy and political legitimacy, exiled armies have found their journey home a tortuous one. This collection of essays covers the experience of exiled forces in the Second World War, principally in Europe, and also covers their activities around the globe during the Cold War and beyond.
The Struggle for Zimbabwe
Lewis H. Gann,Thomas H. Henriksen
Author : Lewis H. Gann,Thomas H. Henriksen
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Guerrillas
ISBN : UOM:39015000676406
The Struggle for Zimbabwe by Lewis H. Gann,Thomas H. Henriksen Pdf
The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier
Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Author : Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789956551446
The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier by Mpiyesizwe Guduza Pdf
The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier is a riveting spider web story of courage, determination, pursuit of justice and survival against all odds. The reader is taken on a path of unparalleled heroism and determination of a young Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) soldier, Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza. Churchill was born in Johannesburg to a Rhodesian father, Makhathini Bhekisizwe Guduza and Amy Poppy Lottering, a South African. After attending Fatima Secondary School in Rhodesia, with his father in continued political detention and his mother merely scrapping a living in the rural hinterlands of Rhodesia, he was compelled to leave for Johannesburg in early 1973 where his already shaped political consciousness led him to participate in the June 1976 Soweto student uprisings. At just under 20 years of age, Churchill escaped South Africa to join ZIPRA in Zambia, just in time before the apartheid net rapidly closed in on him. No sooner had Churchill joined ZIPRA than he experienced similar injustices which he immediately opposed with resolute bravery. Upon completion of military training in Angola, he was immediately deployed to the battlefields of Rhodesia where his unit gallantly fought against the Rhodesian security forces. Churchill's nom de guerre was Taffy Carlos. From Rhodesia, Churchill returned to Zambia to face off ZIPRA's High Command, from where he fled to Angola. After his incarceration in Angola, he returned to independent Zimbabwe, from where he again escaped to the United Kingdom via Botswana and Zambia. Today, he leads the Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), which seeks to EXIT Zimbabwe, and establish the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi.
The War Diaries of André Dennison
André Dennison,J. R. T. Wood
Author : André Dennison,J. R. T. Wood
Publisher : Ashanti Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Soldiers, Black
ISBN : UCAL:B3681245