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Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 (Paperback, New)
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Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 (Paperback, New)
Series: Africa@War
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It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on
the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that
preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency
campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained
Rhodesian security establishment and two constituted liberations
movements motivated, resourced and inspired by the ideals of
communist revolution in the third world. A complicated historical
process of occupation and colonization set the tone as early as the
late 1890s for what would at some point be an inevitable struggle
for domination of this small, landlocked nation set in the southern
tropics of Africa. The story of the Rhodesian War, or the
Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, is not only an epic of superb
military achievement, and revolutionary zeal and fervour, but is
the tale of the incompatibility of the races in southern Africa, a
clash of politics and ideals and, perhaps more importantly, the
ongoing ramifications of the past upon the present, and the social
and political scars that a war of such emotional underpinnings as
the Rhodesian conflict has had on the modern psyche of Zimbabwe.
The Rhodesian War was fought with finely tuned intelligence
gathering and -analysis techniques combined with a fluid and mobile
armed response. The practitioners of both have justifiably been
celebrated in countless histories, memoirs and campaign analyses,
but what has never been attempted has been a concise, balanced and
explanatory overview of the war, the military mechanisms and the
social and political foundations that defined the crisis. This book
does all of that. The Rhodesian War is explained in digestible
detail and in a manner that will allow enthusiasts of the elements
of that struggle – the iconic exploits of the Rhodesian Light
Infantry, the SAS, the Selous Scouts, the Rhodesian African Rifles,
the Rhodesia Regiment, among other well-known fighting units – to
embrace the wider picture in order to place the various episodes in
context.
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