Dr J.R.T Wood – i-go-books

Kwete No!

30degreessouth — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:05:04 +0000

The 1969 republican constitution of the Rhodesia was intended to secure recognition for Ian Smith’s 1965 UDI. Given the evasion by significant nations of the trade sanctions imposed by the UN, the gamble was that this de facto recognition would become de jure.

Zambezi Valley Insurgency

30degreessouth — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:56:54 +0000

Across Africa in the post-1956 era, the aspirations of African nationalists to secure power were boosted and quickly realized by the British, French and Belgian hasty retreat from empire. The Portuguese, Southern Rhodesian and South African governments, however, stood firm.

Operation Dingo

30degreessouth — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:10:59 +0000

Fireforce ‘Writ Large’—Airborne Assault in Mozambique

Startling in its innovation and daringly suicidal, Operation Dingo was not only the
Fireforce concept writ large but the prototype for all the major Rhodesian airborne
attacks on the external bases of Rhodesian African nationalist insurgents in the
neighbouring territories of Mozambique and Zambia until such operations ceased in
late 1979.

Counter-Strike From The Sky

30degreessouth — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:53:45 +0000

Fireforce as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese.