Auction of LtCol Reid-Daly memorabilia
http://www.swelco.co.za/KNYSNA/
A few interesting items (pgs.25-27) once possessed by the LtCol, along with several other interesting pieces of Selous Scouts and RLI history are up for auction in SA.
There's some buzz afoot decrying the auction to Daly's items, but after further research by a member from another board, the items going up are actually a matter of his last wishes and are known (in fact many are posted on the website) to the Scouts Association.
Why did you fight? Narratives of the Rhodesian Insurgency c.1970-1980'
'Why did you fight? Narratives of the Rhodesian Insurgency c.1970-1980' is a UK-based academic oral history project, which conducted interviews - in the UK - and had questionnaires returned by others. I've just found it has been published and it is a good background read.
Link:http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/hpp/resea...tfindings.aspx
There is a link to the eighteen page final report (PDF format).
New Book - The Search for Puma 164
A new book on the Rhodesian war has been published.
The Search for Puma 164
Operation Uric and the Assault on Mapai
Neill Jackson & Rick van Malsen
ISBN: 978-1-920143-57-2
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The battle for Mapai … and the final closure
September 6, 1979. Into the deepening darkness of the African night, a lone Aerospatiale Puma helicopter flies resolutely northward, leaving behind the desolation of the battle for Mapai, in Mozambique’s Gaza Province. Huddled in the cabin, two weary soldiers sit silently immersed in their own thoughts, contemplating their difficult duties ahead. The taller of the two, WOII Graham Enslin, CSM, Support Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI), is struggling to come to terms with the death in action that morning of his younger brother Brian. He wonders how to break the news to his parents. The other, Lt Rick van Malsen BCR, 2IC, 1 Commando, 1RLI, works through the list of names in his hand, names of the 16 men who perished with Trooper Brian Enslin when a South African Air Force Puma was shot out of the sky during the assault on the Frelimo and ZANLA stronghold at Mapai on the much-feared, so-called ‘Russian Front’. It will be his job to send out the official death notices and to advise the next of kin that the bodies of the three South African airmen and 14 Rhodesian soldiers were not recovered. Both men vow that night, each for reasons of his own, to one day return to the scene of the crash to pay proper tribute to the fallen men: the aircrew and troops of Puma 164.
April 11, 2009. And so it was, almost 30 years later, that Rick van Malsen returns to the scene of that horrendous battle, to search for the crash site of the downed Puma, in an effort to achieve closure for the relatives of the dead. This is a story of courage and devotion to duty but, above all, it is a story of comradeship and loyalty undimmed by the passage of time, of a band of brothers bonded together in war, united still in peace.
Selous Scouts and Pseudo Operations During The Rhodesian Bush War
I would like to write a thesis on the Rhodesian Bush War, specifically the use of Pseudo Operations of the selous scouts and the use of blackface as a tool of deception against African guerillas. I had to abandon my hopes of writing a thesis on the toyota war because I couldn't find any primary sources. Does anyone know of an actual selous scout member that participated in the blackface aspect of the war that I could interview? Or any good books or documents? Thanks.
Pseudo Operations of the selous scouts: pointers
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student2010
I would like to write a thesis on the Rhodesian Bush War, specifically the use of Pseudo Operations of the selous scouts and the use of blackface as a tool of deception against African guerillas. I had to abandon my hopes of writing a thesis on the toyota war because I couldn't find any primary sources. Does anyone know of an actual selous scout member that participated in the blackface aspect of the war that I could interview? Or any good books or documents? Thanks.
Student2010,
Have a look in the Rhodesian War thread, that refers to several potential sources, mainly books. Given the time lapse and feelings over history I would be surprised if any former-Selous Scout will talk. One post does refer to an Scouts association, so maybe worth contacting.
Securing and Holding Rural Terrain
Published this morning in the Journal
Securing and Holding Rural Terrain:
Use of Pseudo Teams and Airmobile “Very-Light” Infantry Quick Reaction Forces in Rhodesia Counter-Insurgency Operations
by Timothy Bax and Steven Hatfill
Securing and Holding Rural Terrain
Published this morning in the Journal
Securing and Holding Rural Terrain:
Use of Pseudo Teams and Airmobile “Very-Light” Infantry Quick Reaction Forces in Rhodesia Counter-Insurgency Operations
by Timothy Bax and Steven Hatfill
Pseudo Ops/Rhodesian COIN
Lots of interesting stuff out there.
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=2090
Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgencies
The Rhodesian Experience
Hoffman, Taw, Arnold
RAND, 1991
Bush War
The Use of Surrogates in Southern Africa (1975-1989)
MAJ Joseph E. Escandon
Fort Leavenworth
The Utility of Military Deception during Counterinsurgency
Major Maxwell S. Thibodeaux
Fort Leavenworth
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute...les/pub607.pdf
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art...and-terrorists
PSEUDO OPERATIONS AND COUNTERINSURGENCY:
LESSONS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
Lawrence E. Cline
June 2005
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi
Evans, Michael(2007) 'The Wretched of the Empire: Politics, Ideology and Counterinsurgency in Rhodesia, 1965-80', Small Wars & Insurgencies, 18: 2, 175 — 195