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The Rhodesian Bush War & Rhodesian Military
“The Rhodesians waged a campaign of extreme military professionalism that will deserve a place in the World’s Staff College courses for many years to come.” John Keegan
“…like many…confronted by insurgencies, the Rhodesian security forces functioned under severe financial constraints that limited their access to late model, sophisticated ‘high’tech’ weapons and to large quantities of material. [Their] ability to overcome these constraints by embracing innovative strategies and tactics, including novel techniques in…tracking and reconnaissance, small unit tactics, special operations and intelligence gathering, suggests that the successful prosecution of counterinsurgency need not entail huge expenditure…This tactical achievement is all the impressive given that the balance of government forces to insurgents was roughly 1:1—a ratio far below the 10:1 balance commonly cited as necessary or the effective prosecution of a counterinsurgency…” Hoffman/Taw/Arnold [RAND] Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgencies: the Rhodesian Experience
Counter-Insurgency in Rhodesia
by C.K. Cilliers This book is based on a dissertation submitted in 1981 for a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies at the University of South Africa. The title of the thesis was A Critique on Selected Aspects of the Rhodesian Security Forces Counter-in ...
Lessons for Contemporary Counterinsurgencies, the Rhode...
This is an outstanding review, from RAND. If you don't read any of the others, read this one.
Rhodesia: Tactical Victory, Strategic Defeat
From 7 June 1983 Marine Corps Command and Staff College. "This paper, which describes the guerrilla war in Rhodesia conducted from 1966 to 1980, is divided into four chapters. Chapter I describes the history and background of the country from its estab ...
The Battle for Rhodesia
by Douglas Reed, 1967 This is more of a history of the various incarnations of the Rhodesian state rather than a strictly military-oriented study, so may only be of interest to certain readers. Still worth reading, however.