Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency Specialists (Africa@War)

Baxter, Peter

ISBN 10: 1912866838 / ISBN 13: 9781912866830

Editore: Helion and Company, 2019

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Titolo: Selous Scouts: Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency ...

Casa editrice: Helion and Company

Data di pubblicazione: 2019

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: Fine

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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.