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The Hawker Hunter and Rhodesia’s Bush War

The Hawker Hunter and Rhodesia’s Bush War

How rapidly times alter. As the so-called ‘Winds of Change’ swept through colonial Africa, the process of decolonisation gathered inexorable pace. Rhodesia was a prominent example. In July 1964, it experienced its first terrorist incident when a white farmer was...

FIRST SHOT COUNTS

FIRST SHOT COUNTS

Tank Killers Take on Big Game A Soviet T-55 battle tank rumbles slowly through the southern Angolan countryside, its two mates in echelon close behind. The FAPLA tank commander peers nervously at every shadow, at every oddly shaped bush and rock. He knows the South...

South Africa’s New Range Rifles

South Africa’s New Range Rifles

Springbok civilians' LM4 semiauto CIVILIANS in South Africa - particularly border farmers and cattlemen - have unusual home-defense requirements. Constantly threatened by bands of heavily armed insurgents and an escalating terrorist movement.most of the people with...

Counter Insurgency In SW Africa

Counter Insurgency In SW Africa

South Africa vs SWAPO Terrorists   The story may be apocryphal, but judging by the depth of sentiment expressed when it is recounted, I doubt it. The way it was told to me by a senior member. of SWAPO's external military command in Addis Ababa a few years ago, it...