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Journal articles on the topic "Rhodesian Army"

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Tsigo, Evans B., and Enock Ndawana. "Unsung Heroes? The Rhodesian Defence Regiment and Counterinsurgency, 1973–80." International Journal of Military History and Historiography 39, no. 1 (2019): 88–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24683302-03901005.

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This article examines the Rhodesian Defence Regiment’s role in the Rhodesian Security Forces’ counterinsurgency efforts against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army and Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army guerrillas. It argues that the two guerrilla armies successfully used sabotage targeting installations of strategic and economic significance to Rhodesia. This compelled the Rhodesian regime to change its policy of restricting the conscription of Coloured and Asian minorities into the Rhodesian Security Forces to undertake combat duties beyond defensive roles. However, the Rhodesian Defence Regiment largely failed to serve its key duty of countering the guerrilla tactic of sabotage against all major installations and centres of strategic and economic importance. The article concludes that the failure was due to the many challenges the majority members, Coloureds and Asians, that constituted the Rhodesian Defence Regiment faced, including discrimination and mistrust. These challenges derailed the Rhodesian Defence Regiment operations and partly contributed to the overall end of the Ian Smith regime.

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Howard, M. T. "The Rhodesian army, between facts and fiction." Journal of Southern African Studies 47, no. 4 (2021): 723–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1917921.

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Chakawa, Joshua, and V. Z. Nyawo-Shava. "Guerrilla warfare and the environment in Southern Africa: Impediments faced by ZIPRA and Umkhonto Wesizwe." Oral History Journal of South Africa 2, no. 2 (2015): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/6.

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Zimbabwe Peoples’ Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) was the armed wing of Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) which waged the war to liberate Zimbabwe. It operated from its bases in Zambia between 1964 and 1980. Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) was ANC’s armed wing which sought to liberate South Africa from minority rule. Both forces (MK and ZIPRA) worked side by side until the attainment of independence by Zimbabwe when ANC guerrillas were sent back to Zambia by the new Zimbabwean government. This paper argues that the failure of ZIPRA and Umkhonto Wesizwe to deploy larger numbers of guerrillas to the war front in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and South Africa was mainly caused by bio-physical challenges. ZAPU and ANC guerrillas faced the difficult task of crossing the Zambezi River and then walking through the sparsely vegetated areas, game reserves and parks until they reached villages deep in the country. Rhodesian and South African Defense Forces found it relatively easy to disrupt guerrilla movements along these routes. Even after entering into Rhodesia, ANC guerrillas had environmental challenges in crossing to South Africa. As such, they could not effectively launch protracted rural guerrilla warfare. Studies on ZIPRA and ANC guerrilla warfare have tended to ignore these environmental problems across inhospitable territories. For the ANC, surveillance along Limpopo River and in Kruger National Park acted more as impediments than conduits. ANC also had to cope with almost all challenges which confronted ZIPRA guerrillas such as the Zambezi, Lake Kariba and various parks which Rhodesians always used as a first line of defense but had a geographically difficult task in South Africa where the environment was not attractive for a guerrilla warfare.

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Ndawana, Enock, and Mediel Hove. "Traditional Leaders and Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle in Buhera District, 1976–1980." Journal of African Military History 2, no. 2 (2018): 119–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00202002.

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AbstractThis article examines the role of traditional leaders during Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. Contrary to the generalisations that traditional leaders and their subordinates were either absolutely supportive of the liberation war or were against it supporting the Smith regime, this paper uses the case of Buhera District to demonstrate that traditional leaders and their subordinates contributed in various ways to Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. Guided by a combination of primary and secondary sources, the article argues that traditional leaders were in a dilemma because they were victims of the contending forces. However, they employed various survival tactics as they faced equally dangerous conflicting forces who put them in complex, ambiguous and contradictory relationships. The article concludes that the strategies and tactics employed by the Rhodesian Security Forces and the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army guerrillas had debilitating effects on traditional leaders and their subordinates during the liberation war.

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Gerhart, Gail M., and Jeremy Ginifer. "Managing Arms in Peace Processes: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe." Foreign Affairs 75, no. 5 (1996): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20047810.

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Akande, Dapo. "The International Court of Justice and the Security Council: Is there Room for Judicial Control of Decisions of the Political Organs of the United Nations?" International and Comparative Law Quarterly 46, no. 2 (1997): 309–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589300060450.

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Theend of the Cold War and the emergence of a one-superpower world have brought about what one may call the resurrection of the Security Council and a reactivation of Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. Powers of a coercive nature vested by the Charter in the Security Council which for decades seemed like a dead letter have been rediscovered since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Security Council, which until then had been deadlocked through the threat or use of the veto, has now come alive. Up to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 the Security Council had passed 659 resolutions in its 45 years of existence. In the six years since then it has passed over 400 resolutions. What is more important, however, is that mandatory sanctions, which until 1990 had been ordered only twice—the comprehensive sanctions on Rhodesia and arms embargo on South Africa—have since been used by the Security Council in relation to at least eleven countries. This new and increased activity of the Security Council has provoked debate in recent years as to whether the Council is subject to any limitations when it is acting to maintain or restore international peace and security. The problem has shifted from one of trying to get the Council to work as it was intended, to one of trying to control the work of the Council. In particular there has been renewed interest in the question whether there is any room for judicial control, by the International Court of Justice, of decisions made by the political organs of the United Nations.

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Eason, Andrew M. "Christian warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Salvation Army and African Liberation, 1891–1991. By Norman H. Murdoch (foreword N. M. Bhebe ) Pp. xxxi + 218 incl. 22 ills. Eugene, Or: Pickwick, 2015. $28 (paper). 978 1 62564 681 1." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67, no. 2 (2016): 455–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046915003073.

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Summers, Carol. "Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar. By Luise White." Journal of Social History, August 23, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shab051.

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Chakawa, Joshua S. "Indigenous Medical Knowledge and the Experiences of ZIPRA Guerrillas in Zimbabwe’s Liberation Strugg." Oral History Journal of South Africa 7, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/3878.

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This article aims to examine the importance of indigenous medical knowledge during the 1970s when guerrillas from the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) negotiated their way to the front to fight the Rhodesian white minority regime. From the 1960s until the ceasefire at the end of 1979, ZIPRA was one of the two liberation movements that waged war to liberate Zimbabwe. This article traces the experiences of guerrillas who moved from the Zambian side of the Zambezi Valley into Rhodesia. The terrain that the guerrillas had to navigate on foot was punctuated by many devastating and life-threatening challenges. Some of these included malaria, sleeping sickness, venereal diseases, snake bites, mental disorders, injuries and even fatigue. Given that the guerrillas had no hospitals and other medical facilities at their disposal, it is important to establish how local knowledge assisted them to survive, especially when ailments struck them. The purpose of this study was to determine the role the fighters’ knowledge of indigenous medicines played in dealing with these difficulties. The author collected information by conducting interviews with former ZIPRA guerrillas who had operated in Zimbabwe during the war. Some civilians who were in ZIPRA operational areas were also interviewed. The importance of the study lies in understanding the continued use and existence of indigenous medical remedies in Zimbabwe. Findings from the study are valuable in widening knowledge horizons on indigenous medical knowledge as a useful alternative in times of need.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Rhodesian Army"

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Hagemann, Michael Eric. "Shadows, faces and echoes of an African war: The Rhodesian bush war through the eyes of Chas Lotter – soldier poet." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5474.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>Poetry that is rooted in that most extreme of human experiences, war, continues to grip the public imagination. When the poetry under scrutiny comes from the "losing side" in a colonial war of liberation, important moral and ethical questions arise. In this thesis, I examine the published and unpublished works of Chas Lotter, a soldier who fought in the Rhodesian Army during the Zimbabwean liberation war (1965- 1980). In investigating Lotter's artistic record of this war, I propose that a powerful, socially embedded Rhodesian national mythology was a catalyst for acceptance of, and participation in, the Rhodesian regime's ideological and military aims. A variety of postcolonial theoretical approaches will be used to explore the range of thematic concerns that emerge and to unpack the dilemmas experienced by a soldier-poet who took part in that conflict. Trauma theory, too, will be drawn upon to critically respond to the personal impact that participation in organized violence has upon combatants and non-combatants alike. The production and marketing of this cultural record will also be examined and in the conclusion, I speculate on the changes modern technology and evolving social mores may have on future developments in war literature. Finally, I conclude my case for installing the challenging work of this often conflicted and contradictory soldier-poet as a necessary adjunct to the established canon of Zimbabwean Chimurenga writing.

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Alexander, Edward George McGill. "The airborne concept in the South African military, 1960-2000 : strategy versus tactics in small wars." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23448.

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Text in English<br>Restricted files have not been uploaded<br>The thesis commences by elaborating on the concept of vertical envelopment as a form of military manoeuvre and defining airborne operations as comprising parachute, helicopter and air-landed actions. It goes on to describe strategy and tactics as they apply to the discussion before briefly tracing the development internationally of vertical envelopment and the thinking of the South African military about airborne operations during the Second World War. Events leading up to the decision by the South African military to acquire helicopters and to train paratroopers in 1960 are examined and the early operational employment of helicopters is analysed. The establishment of 1 Parachute Battalion is discussed in the light of the absence of a clear understanding of how it should be employed. Moving on to the commencement of the conflict known as the Southern African Thirty Year War, the issue of strategic versus tactical application of an airborne capability during operations in Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia is defined. Strategic application is then illustrated by specific independent airborne strikes, and the requirement for an airborne brigade to plan and conduct such operations is highlighted. The establishment of 44 Parachute Brigade and the difficulties experienced in its development are reviewed before scrutinising the tactical use of airborne forces in support of other ground forces. The high point in organisation and capability of the airborne forces of the South African Defence Force at the time of the ending of the Thirty Year War is appraised and the unfulfilled potential of the capability is elucidated. Faced with change and uncertainty, the employment of the paratroopers in urban operations during the height of the civil unrest is examined. This is followed by probing the response of the paratrooper organisation to severe budget cuts, enforced reorganisation and relocation, the ending of conscription and integration into the new South African National Defence Force following the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. The thesis concludes with an evaluation of the airborne actions during the incursion by South Africa into Lesotho in 1998 and an assessment of the implications of the loss of a strategic airborne capability.<br>History<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (History)

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Books on the topic "Rhodesian Army"

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David, Heppenstall, and Rhodesian African Rifles Regimental Association (UK), eds. Masodja: The history of the Rhodesian African Rifles and its forerunner the Rhodesian Native Regiment. 30° South Publishers, 2007.

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Cocks, Chris, and Mark Adams. Africa's commandos: The Rhodesian Light Infantry. Helion, 2012.

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Chris, Cocks, ed. The saints: The Rhodesian Light Infantry. 30° South, 2007.

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Cocks, Chris. The Cheetah: Magazine of the Rhodesian light infantry. Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association (RLIRA), 2011.

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Cocks, Chris. The Cheetah: Magazine of the Rhodesian light infantry. Rhodesian Light Infantry Regimental Association (RLIRA), 2011.

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Mutambara, Agrippah. Chimoio attack: Rhodesian genocide. Dept. of Information and Publicity, ZANU-PF Headquarters, 2008.

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Chimoio attack: Rhodesian genocide. Dept. of Information and Publicity, ZANU-PF Headquarters, 2008.

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Stewart, Michael P. The Rhodesian African Rifles: The growth and adaptation of a multicultural regiment through the Rhodesian Bush War, 1965-1980 : a thesis presented to the faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science Military History. Combat Studies Institute Press, 2012.

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Cocks, C. J. Fireforce: One man's war in the Rhodesian light infantry. Galago, 1988.

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Cocks, C. J. Fireforce: One man's war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry. 2nd ed. Covos Books, 1997.

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Book chapters on the topic "Rhodesian Army"

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"The Salvation Army and the Rhodesian State, 1908–65." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.15.

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"8. “Will Travel Worldwide. You Pay Expenses”: Foreign Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army." In Fighting and Writing. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478021285-010.

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"4. “Each Footprint Tells a Story”: Tracking and Poaching in the Rhodesian Army." In Fighting and Writing. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781478021285-006.

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"The Salvation Army Invades Mashonaland, 1891–95." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.11.

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Coutts, John. "Norman Murdoch, Historian of The Salvation Army." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.9.

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"Conciliar Movements and The Salvation Army, 1970–78." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.18.

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"Salvation Army Reaction to the Usher Killings, 1978–83." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.21.

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"The Program to Combat Racism and the Salvation Army Reaction, 1969–78." In Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. The Lutterworth Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt16wdkzc.19.

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Burke, Kyle. "Covert Warriors for Hire." In Revolutionaries for the Right. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640730.003.0005.

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In the late 1970s, a new set of Americans took up the dream of a global anticommunist revolution. Many were high-ranking CIA and military officers who had been forced from their jobs by the Ford and Carter administrations in the wake of the Vietnam War. As Congress passed new laws constraining the United States’ clandestine services, these ex-soldiers and spies argued that the state’s deteriorating covert war-making abilities signaled a broader decline in U.S. power. To remedy that, retired covert warriors such as U.S. Army General John Singlaub, a thirty-year veteran of special operations, entered the world of conservative activism, which promised both steady pay and power in retirement. Working in the shadow of the state, they sought to revitalize a form of combat to which they had dedicated their lives. Some even started private military firms to fill in for the U.S. government. Meanwhile, hundreds of American men, mostly disgruntled Vietnam veterans, sought new lives as mercenaries, first in Southeast Asia and then in Rhodesia and Angola. In the late 1970s, these two camps of revanchist Americans—retired covert warriors and aspiring mercenaries—established patterns of paramilitarism that would transform the anticommunist international in the Reagan era.

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