The Rhodesian Bush War

[EndtheMadnessNow]

In this third episode of our "First Strike" series, we dive into the aerial dimension of the Rhodesian Bush War—a brutal and complex conflict from 1965 to 1980, where a small, isolated nation faced overwhelming odds. From daring cross-border raids to innovative Fireforce tactics, we explore how the Rhodesian Air Force, flying aging but effective aircraft like the Lynx, Hunter, and Canberra, played a pivotal role in counterinsurgency operations against Soviet- and Chinese-backed guerrillas. Witness the tactics, operations, and outcomes of a war fought with ingenuity in the skies above Africa.



00:00 Introduction
00:50 Background
04:48 Rhodesian Air Forces
05:24 War in Two Phases
06:19 War Begins - 1965
08:18 Phase Two - 1971
10:02 Major Ops 1976
12:31 November 1977
14:23 Operation Gatling 1978
19:20 Operation Vanity 1979
21:11 Operation Uric 1979 - detailed
36:54 Uric aftermath
38:16 End of conflict
41:48 Conclusion

Correction:
02:13 should read "...23,000 from other countries and ethnicities."

[F2d5thCav]

Glory to the Rhodesian Light Infantry.

A measure of how jacked the world already was by that point-- the Rhodesians were good enough to die for the Allies in the world wars but were completely abandoned in the name of decolonializing virtue signaling.

[Ninurta]

Glory to the Rhodesian Light Infantry.

"JOIN

Be A Man Among Men

RLI"

A measure of how jacked the world already was by that point-- the Rhodesians were good enough to die for the Allies in the world wars but were completely abandoned in the name of decolonializing virtue signaling.

Mugabe is gone from office now, but the repercussions from that war still march on. Now Zimbabwe" (which is what Mugabe renamed Rhodesia to - I guess he didn't like Cecil Rhodes or something) is begging for the white farmers to come back. Apparently, Mugabe's political cronies were no damned good at farming, and after the farms were "confiscated" from the white farmers and "redistributed" to black "farmers" who just happened to be Mugabe's political cronies,  what was once the breadbasket of southern Africa stopped producing, and the farms went to shit, infrastructure either falling apart or simply being destroyed,

Rhodesia fed itself, and a great many others too, but Zimbabwe could not even feed it's own then, and that's a big part of why the economy fell to shit (that and the fact that Mugabe just printed "money" with nothing to back it in an attempt to pay government debts that fell into place after farm exports were no longer able to keep it afloat) and inflation eventually hit literally BILLIONS of percents.

Now they want the white Rhodesian farmers to come back - after about a 40 year hiatus because farmers were being killed for their farms - so that they can get their economy back on track. Fuck 'em. There is absolutely no reason for a farmer to ever trust a Zimbabwean,

Even at that, whites are not allowed to own farms in Zimbabwe, and they are begging them to come back and LEASE farms, to pay for the privilege of working the lands that were once theirs like itinerant sharecroppers, to benefit the ZANU government. That doesn't strike me as a very good deal, just sayin'....

Zimbabwe is the best argument that could be made to illustrate how Marxism and Progressivism never, EVER work.

"Pamwe Chete"

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