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Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80 de Kerrin Cocks

Rhodesian Fire Force 1966-80: Africa@War

Autor Kerrin Cocks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2015
On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781910294055
ISBN-10: 1910294055
Pagini: 72
Ilustrații: c 150 colour & b/w photos, maps maps
Dimensiuni: 208 x 292 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: HELION & COMPANY
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Notă biografică

Kerrin Cocks has worked in military-history publishing for fourteen years. She ghostwrote Mzee Ali: The Biography of an African Slave-raider Turned Askari and Scout (30 South, 2006), I Won't Be Home Next Summer: Flight Lieutenant R.N. Selley DFC (1917-1941) (30 South, 2014) and conceptualized the Africa@War series (co-published by 30 South and Helion & Co.). She scripted, directed, produced and edited the full-length DVD documentary that accompanied Richard Wood's book, "Counter-Strike from the Sky: The Rhodesian All-arms Fireforce in the War in the Bush, 1974-1980", which was aired on the New Zealand Documentary Channel, as well as producing a short documentary on the SADF Pathfinder Company. She is an honorary member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association and LAARSA.

Descriere

On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation. As Communist-trained guerrillas flooded the country, the beleaguered Rhodesians, hard-pressed for manpower and military resources, were forced to devise new and innovative methods to combat the insurgency. Fire Force was their answer. Fire Force as a military concept dates from 1974 when the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) acquired the French MG151 20mm cannon from the Portuguese. Visionary RhAF and Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) officers expanded on the idea of a 'vertical envelopment' of the enemy, with the 20mm cannon being the principal weapon of attack, mounted in an Alouette III K-Car ('Killer car'), supported by ground troops deployed from G-Cars (Alouette III troop-carrying gunships and latterly Bell 'Hueys') and parachuted from DC-3 Dakotas. In support would be a propeller-driven ground-attack aircraft armed with front guns, pods of napalm, white phosphorus rockets and a variety of Rhodesian-designed bombs; on call would be Canberra bombers, Hawker Hunter and Vampire jets. In spite of the overwhelming number of enemy pitted against them, Rhodesian Fire Forces accounted for thousands of enemy guerrillas, with a kill ratio exceeding 80:1. At the end of the war, ZANLA generals admitted their army could not have survived another year in the field-in no small part due to the ruthless efficiency of the Fire Forces, described by Charles D. Melson, the Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, as the ultimate "killing machine".