Selous Scouts Top Secret War
Author: Lt. Col. Ron Reid Daly as told to Peter Stiff
Publisher: Galago Books
Edition: Second Edition 1982
ISBN: 0 620 05771 8
Language: English
Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Previous owners name
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 432. Text with images and maps
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This is the story of the Selous Scouts Regiment of Rhodesia, which was formed in 1973 and abolished without benefit of formal disbandment, when Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF took power after the British supervised elections in 1980. Its purpose on formation was the clandestine elimination of ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas, both within and outside Rhodesia. Their success in this field can be gauged by the fact that Combined Operations Rhodesia, officially credited them with either directly or indirectly being responsible for the deaths of 68% of all guerrillas killed within Rhodesia during the war - losing less than 40 Selous Scouts in the process.
the Selous Scouts were the toughest and most efficient killing machine anywhere in Africa, and its members consisted of the finest guerrilla fighting men in the Western world. Unconventional in many ways, disregardful of parade ground discipline, unorthodox in their dress, yet a force so tightly knit in the face of danger that those who knew anything about them could only marvel.
The book is a very good look at a remarkable approach to conducting counter-insurgency operations and the most clandestine, effective, run amok unit in the a Rhodesian military. Rhodesians will immediately recognize places and names. If anyone in the Rhodesian military had a knack for making enemies, it was the author but in hindsight, one can say he earned it fair and square. To hear a Scout OC tell the story, one cant help believe that the Scouts were the only ones doing all the work. They certainly did but the author gives little credit to the RLI and other Rhodesian Regiment units. Still very worth reading and full of facts, history, and unit procedures. so to speak. But the fact is, there was no better unit at pseudo operations in the bush where the enemy was constantly infiltrated and terminated.
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