Southern Rhodesia. Army. Selous Scouts - Selous Scouts Rhodesian counter-insurgency specialists
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Formed in 1973 by the legendary Lieutenant-Colonel Ron Reid-Daly at the behest of Rhodesian military supremo General Peter Walls, the Selous Scouts were to write their name into the annals of military history as one of the finest counterinsurgency units of all time, through their innovative pseudo-guerrilla tactics, brilliant reconnaissance operations into Zambia and Botswana and daring flying-column raids into Mozambique.
Feared and hated by the liberation movements ZIPRA and ZANLA, the Scouts wreaked untold havoc and destruction on their Soviet- and Chinese-backed enemies, accounting for 68% of guerrilla casualties within Rhodesia alone during the bitter...
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Also by Peter Baxter:
Rhodesia: Last Outpost of the British Empire
France in Centrafrique (Africa@War Vol 2)
eBook edition 2012
Co-published in 2011 by:
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Text Peter Baxter, 2011
Designed & typeset by 30 South Publishers (Pty) Ltd., South Africa
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Printed by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, Dorset, UK
ISBN 978-1-907677-38-0
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CONTENTS
| 2IC | second in command |
| Ack-Ack | name given to anti-aircraft fire, originating during the Second World War |
| amaNdebele | minority indigenous ethnic/language group, resident in the Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe; an offshoot of the Zulu |
| Bandeira de Portugal | Portuguese flag |
| braai | barbeque (Afrikaans) |
| BSAC | British South Africa Company |
| BSAP | British South Africa Police |
| casevac | casualty evacuation |
| Chindits | a British long-range penetration force active during the Burma campaign of the Second World War |
| chiShona | language of the Mashona people |
| CID | Criminal Investigation Department |
| CIO | Central Intelligence Organization |
| CO | commanding officer |
| ComOps | Combined Operations (Headquarters) |
| cordon sanitaire | a lengthy combined security fence and minefield that was installed along the northeastern and eastern borders of Rhodesia during the 1970s |
| Dtente | South African policy of appeasement/rapprochement with black Africa during the early 1970s |
| dwala | a domed granite protrusion commonly seen throughout southern Africa; a geologic precursor to a kopje |
| Exrcito Portugus | the Portuguese army |
| Flechas | lit. Arrows, a Portuguese pseudo unit deployed in Mozambique and Angola |
| FN FAL | Fabrique Nationale Fusil Automatique Lger (infantry assault rifle) |
| FN MAG | Fabrique Nationale Mitrailleuse dAppui Gnral (general-purpose infantry machine gun, or GPMG) |
| frantan | locally produced variant of napalm; der. frangible tank |
| Frelimo | Frente de Libertao de Moambique, Front for the Liberation of Mozambique |
| frozen area | operational area frozen of normal security force activity in order to allow Selous Scout pseudo units to operate without risk of interception by normal security force units or to in some other way influence events on the ground |
| gook | pejorative name for members of one or other of the liberation movements; der. Vietnam War |
| HALO | high altitude low opening (see below) parachuting technique involving high-altitude deployment with low-altitude opening |
| (Indep) Coy | the Rhodesian security forces distributed school- leaver national servicemen mainly in a number of independent companies of the Rhodesia Regiment; the companies were rebadged later as Rhodesian African Rifles |
| Information Scandal | a South African political scandal involving the Department of Information |
| JOC | Joint Operational Centre |
| Kikuyu | a tribal grouping focused in the central highlands of Kenya |
| Manicaland | eastern province of Zimbabwe, traditional home of the Manica sub-group of the chiShona language group |
| Mashona | majority indigenous language group resident in the Mashonaland region of Zimbabwe |
| Mashonaland | province of Zimbabwe, the traditional home of the Mashona peoples |
| Matabeleland | province of Zimbabwe, the traditional home of the amaNdebele people |
| Mau Mau | a tribally specific uprising that occurred in Kenya between the end of the Second World War and the early 1960s miombo signature woodland pattern common to the central plateau of southern Africa and consisting primarily of various Brachystegia species |
| MNR | Movimento Nacional da Resistncia de Moambique, National Resistance Movement of Mozambique, also Renamo |
| mopane | a common woodland tree found in the low-lying regions of southern Africa |
| muti | traditional medicine or witchcraft (chiShona) |
| Nguni | Large ethnic group indigenous to the southern and southeastern regions of South Africa, comprising the Zulu and Xhosa, among others |
| OCC | Operations Coordinating Committee |
| RAR | Rhodesian African Rifles |
| Renamo | Resistncia Nacional Moambicana, Mozambican National Resistance (Movement) (also MNR) |
| RhAF | Rhodesian Air Force |
| RLI | Rhodesian Light Infantry |
| SAAF | South African Air Force |
| SAAFA | South African Air Force Association |
| SADF | South African Defence Force |
| SAM | surface-to-air missile |
| SAS | Special Air Service |
| SB | Special Branch |
| Shangaan | an Nguni-derived ethnic/language group occupying the Gaza region of Mozambique/Zimbabwe |
| sharp end | the operational area (slang) |
| Skuzapo | idiomatic chiShona epithet applied to the Selous Scouts; der. Excuse me here |
| SNEB | Socit Nouvelle des Etablissements Edgar Brandt, unguided air-to-surface missile |
| Supers | nickname applied to the Rhodesian C Squadron SAS |
| terr | terrorist |
| TTL | Tribal Trust Land |
| UANC | United African National Council |
| UDI | Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
| Unimog | 1.5l and 2.5l multi-purpose auto four-wheel drive medium trucks produced by Mercedes-Benz, a division of Daimler AG |
| white African | a term applied to white residents or citizens of Rhodesia with a particular fluency in native languages, culture and lifestyles and well and a deep familiarity with the natural environment |
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