Not the typical Rhodesian, rather the typical insurgent. They would gather a bunch together to take on lone homestead which were pretty well secured, seldom press home an attach and disappear to fight another day. They disappeared because they knew that by first light there would be trackers dropped to follow up put some distance between them and the contact area by morning.
The commanders had to analyse the intel and see where their best efforts were to deploy troops. If the Selous Scouts were in your area there was a certainty there would be intel coming on which deploy and kill.Questions:
1.) How often were the insurgents detected and acted upon?
They lived close to the villages for food and sex. Moving around to spread the foot load across all the villages in the area. The distance depended on the lie of the land. 200, 300, 400m?2.) What was the terrain like around these settlements? How close were they to villages?
I don't know these raids. Were they Taliban raids against your COPs?3.) How does the "body count" compare to Taliban raids against, say, COP Keating and Wanat?
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