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Selous Scouts - Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists (Paperback)
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Selous Scouts - Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists (Paperback)
Series: Africa@War
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Discovery Miles 4 980
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Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at
the behest of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the
Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military
history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time,
through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant
reconnaissance operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring
flying-column raids into Mozambique. Feared and hated by the
liberation movements ZIPRA and ZANLA, the Scouts wreaked untold
havoc and destruction on their Soviet- and Chinese-backed enemies,
accounting for 68% of guerrilla casualties within Rhodesia alone
during the bitter bush war of the 1970s. Uniquely ahead of its
time, the regiment - a brotherhood of men that traversed cultural
and racial barriers; their Shona motto was 'Pamwe Chete' (together
only) - was to produce the type of soldier that earned for the unit
one Grand Cross of Valour, nine Silver Crosses and 22 Bronze
Crosses of Rhodesia.
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