Paul Moorcroft and Peter McLaughlin - RHODESIAN WAR, THE

Professor Paul Moorcraft lived in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1976-81. He covered the war, inter alia , for Time magazine, and also taught politics and history at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. His doctorate was on the intelligence and military failures of the Rhodesian government. He also served in the A Reserve of the BSAP/ZRP for 18 months, after December 1979. In addition, he worked extensively as a journalist covering the conflicts throughout southern Africa from 1981-88. Later, he was the editor of a range of UK security and foreign policy magazines, including Defence Review and Defence International . He worked for most of the Western TV networks as a freelance producer/war correspondent, as well as lecturing full-time at ten major universities in journalism, politics and international relations. He was a Distinguished Radford Visiting Professor in Journalism at Baylor University, Texas. He has worked in 30 war zones in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, often with irregular forces, most recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Darfur and Nepal.

Paul Moorcraft is a former senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College. He also worked in Corporate Communications in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall. In 2003 he was recalled temporarily to government service in Whitehall and Iraq.

He is the author of a wide range of books on military history, politics and crime, as well as being an award-winning novelist. Paul Moorcraft is a regular broadcaster and contributor to UK and US newspapers (with frequent columns in the Washington Times, Business Day [Johannesburg], the Guardian , etc.), as well as a pundit on BBC TV and radio, Sky, Al-Jazeera, CBC, etc. His most recent co-authored book is Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (2005); the updated US edition is The New Wars of the West (2006). His co-authored study on combat journalism, with Professor Phil Taylor, Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting , was published in 2008.

Professor Moorcraft is currently the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis, London, as well as being a Visiting Professor at Cardiff Universitys School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Dr Peter McLaughlin was born in Northern Ireland and lived in Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1956 to 1983. He is a history graduate of the University of Rhodesia. His doctorate was a study of the role of British Imperial defence policy in shaping the Rhodesian armed forces from the 1890s to the 1950s. During the Rhodesian war, he served in operational areas as a field reservist in the British South Africa Police. Peter McLaughlin taught modern political and economic history at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from 1977 to 1983. He set up the War Studies course at the university and was awarded an Association of Commonwealth Universities Post-doctoral Fellowship to the London School of Economics to study the British munitions industry in the First World War. He left the world of research and lecturing to carve out a successful career as a headmaster at major independent schools in England. From 1999 to 2005 he was Principal of The British International School in Cairo and kept the school functioning smoothly throughout the Islamist terrorist campaigns in Egypt, as well as during the turmoil in the Middle East of 9/11, the Afghanistan invasion and the Iraq crisis.

Other related books by Paul Moorcraft

A Short Thousand Years: The End of Rhodesias Rebellion (1979)

Contact 2: The Struggle for Peace (1981)

Africas Superpower (1981)

Stander: bank robber (with Mike Cohen) (1984)

African Nemesis: War and Revolution in Southern Africa, 1945-2010 (1990)

What the hell am I doing here? Travels with an occasional war correspondent (1995)

Guns and Poses: Travels with an occasional war correspondent (2001)

Axis of Evil: The War on Terror (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2005)

The New Wars of the West (with Gwyn Winfield and John Chisholm) (2006)

Shooting the Messenger: The Political Impact of War Reporting (with Phil Taylor) (2008)

Peter McLaughlin

Ragtime Soldiers: The Rhodesian experience in The Great War (1981)

The Occupation of Mashonaland (1982)