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    There is another RFI thread on UW which has suggestions, which may have an application: .

    I suggested some titles then and have thinned it out: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=4613

    'They Live by the Sword', on the only black SADF infantry unit, 32 Buffalo Battalion by Col. Jan Breytenbach (fighting in Angola & SW Africa; included as unusual)

    'SAS Operation Oman' by Col Tony Jeapes (Dhofar campaign early '70s). See new edition review, under new title: http://smallwarsjournal.com/mag/docs...49-weinger.pdf. There is another book on the campaign, which I've not read: 'We Won the War' by John Akehurst (Pub. 1982).

    'The Frontier Scouts' by Charles Chevenix Trench (para-military forces on British Empire NW Frontier, predecessors of the Frontier Corps)

    'Soldier Sahibs: The men who made the NW Frontier' by Charles Allen (superb book for India 1839-1858, focus on small units and the leaders)

    Some of these titles have appeared on another thread.

    Have any of the books on the Soviet era in Afghanistan touched upon the advisory role? I am sure books on Malaysia refer to this theme, but not read much on that - perhaps our Australian / Kiwi members can help?

    davidbfpo
    Last edited by davidbfpo; 08-06-2010 at 12:11 PM. Reason: This post copied here from elsewhere to assist current RFI and reading on background.

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