Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush

Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War. A Memoir

Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay â€˜Kiwiâ€™ Oâ€™Brienâ€™s Bush War service from 1976â€“1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA Police Support Unit, the police professional anti-terrorist battalion, he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before joining the UANC political armies as trainer and advisor. Much has been written about the Armyâ€™s elite units, but Support Unitâ€™s war record was mainly unknown during the conflict, and has faded into obscurity afterwards. Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber of the men, mostly African, was second-to-none. Support Unit specialized in the â€œgruntâ€ work inside Rhodesia with none of the flamboyant helicopter or cross-border raids carried out by the army. Oâ€™Brienâ€™s war was primarily within selected tribal lands, seeking out and destroying terrorist units in brisk close range battles with little to no support. Oâ€™Brien moved from the police to working with the initial UANC deployment in the Zambezi Valley where the poorly trained recruits were delivered into the terrorist lair. They had to learn fast or die. Oâ€™Brienâ€™s account is a foreign-born perspective from a junior commander uninterested in promotion and the wrangling of upper command. He was decorated and wounded three times.
Country USA
Brand Helion & Company
Manufacturer Helion and Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 25846878
ReleaseDate 2017-08-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781911512028

Country	USA
Brand	Helion & Company
Manufacturer	Helion and Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	25846878
ReleaseDate	2017-08-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781911512028

Bandit Mentality: Hunting Insurgents in the Rhodesian Bush War. A Memoir

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