Verdict: carrot
Numerous works have been published in recent years on the southern African liberation wars, each good in their way, but Dr Richard Wood provides an outstandingly well-researched book and accompanying DVD.
It concerns the start, strategy and tactics of the Rhodesian Fireforce concept, rather than individuals’ own experiences. By so doing, the book places many of the bush-war biographies into perspective.
To defend white Rhodesia with an army strike force of no more than 1 500 regular soldiers, while sanctions were imposed on both equipment and technology, was a gargantuan task.
Wood expertly elaborates on how this dilemma - together with lessons learned from other low-intensity conflicts (Malaya, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Portuguese Africa) - influenced the thinking, sowing the seed that eventually led to Fireforce.
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