Rhodesian COIN (consolidated thread, inc original RLI)

[davidbfpo]

I don't think this report has appeared here; caveat this is a large thread.

Discovered via the BSAP History Group and it is a scanned copy (174 pgs), the main author being Bruce Hoffman and available for free via:https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/groupsioattachments/61171/74548006/746/1?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJECNKOVMCCU3ATNQ&Expires=1591 276652&Signature=RWrxLxwZXOm3zpwyyqPlmmZlRz4%3D&re sponse-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3D%22rhodesian+less ons.pdf%22

[davidbfpo]

Thanks to Jon Custis for spotting that Charles Melson has written 'Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence', which has been published in the UK and USA by Casemate Publishers. It has to date on rating and one very short review.

Links to Amazon sites (there are other publishers): https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Time...4999730&sr=1-1 and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Ti...s=books&sr=1-1

The author's bio:

Charles D. “Chuck” Melson served as the Chief Historian for the U.S. Marine Corps, at Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps in Washington, DC, and the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. His military service included 25 years as a U.S. Marine. For some 23 years he wrote, co-authored, or edited official publications and series. Chuck was also a joint historian with the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. He received the General Edwin Simmons-Henry Shaw Award for public historians, the General Leonard Chapman Medal for professional military educators, and the commemorative Rhodesian Independence Medal.

Parts of the book can be found on Google Books: https://books.google.bs/books?id=iv0...6AEwCHoECAsQAg

[davidbfpo]

I know a review of Melson's book is due in the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies.

Awaiting my attention and time is a book published in Zimbabwe, in 2020 and available via Bush War Books in South Africa: 'A Brutal State of Affairs: The rise and fall of Rhodesia' by Henrik Ellert and Dennis Anderson, both were police officers, in the Special Branch at the time. Two reviews and five ratings on: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brutal-Stat...pe=all_reviews

[davidbfpo]

I still add updates here - partly as this thread continues to get many visits (754k till today).

Today I received an article by Dr. Robert Lyman, ex-UK Army and now a military historian on the Rhodesian War; it was published a year ago today. It is a critical commentary and some of the links / names have appeared here before. See: https://robertlyman.substack.com/p/b...-how-to-lose-a