The Rhodesian Bush War & Its Forgotten Foreign Fighters

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The Rhodesian Bush War & Its Forgotten Foreign Fighters

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Valor Vignette

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@JohnMoore-xf5wy 11 ай бұрын

A former friend, Paddy Curtis, a member of the Selous Scouts, was murdered in his home in Buluwayo last year. He was a Warrior and a true gentleman. RIP.

@schweinhund7966 11 ай бұрын

May he rest in peace ✝️

@desmondhull5778 11 ай бұрын

Respect from me my friend.

@JohnMoore-xf5wy 11 ай бұрын

@@desmondhull5778 Thank you both.

@desmondhull5778 11 ай бұрын

@@JohnMoore-xf5wy The ones who comitted this murder are scumbags.

@desmondhull5778 11 ай бұрын

@@dewoitine He was a hero not like the cowardly scumbags who murdered him.

@madmike786 9 ай бұрын

Ian Smith was a true leader. A Rhodesian through and through. A man among men. R.I.P. Your memories will last forever. From a proud Rhodesian.

@madmike786 9 ай бұрын

😢❤❤❤

@andrewamarhashitei7761 8 ай бұрын

This whites trying to own a land in Africa but they failed😂

@andrewamarhashitei7761 8 ай бұрын

Thanks to the former USSR

@stellarmella9557 7 ай бұрын

how the traded him for that piece of shit mugabe is beyond comprehension

@squiglemcsquigle8414 6 ай бұрын

Dumbass colonizer

@alanellis1442 3 ай бұрын

I am a CANADIAN and I was proud to fight for the RHODESIAN army from 1971 to the end

@john-rambo-1982 9 күн бұрын

Thank you for standing against communism, sir.

@mantia39 Жыл бұрын

I remember the recruitment ads in Soldier of Fortune magazine. "JOIN THE RHODESIAN ARMY,FIGHT INSURGENT REBELS AND GET PAID!"

@anon2034 Жыл бұрын

Did you know someone who joined?

@jb7483 Жыл бұрын

Yes my neighbor did from Ohio

@anon2034 Жыл бұрын

@@jb7483 Stories?

@egillskallagrimson5879 11 ай бұрын

dang I wasn't even a project in my dad's nuts back in the day and I've seen some of those! and we are spanish! he had this old magazines he bought when he was serving in the paras and long after that and I read it as a teen. I remember reading soldier of fortune because I liked all the military stuff and that's how sparked my interest on military history.

@efreitorsroul9332 11 ай бұрын

good days

@anthonyburke5656 3 ай бұрын

It was NEVER a “struggle for black majority rule” it was a tribal brawl, 3 tribes brawling and arguing over who got to dominate and grab the resources, they are still doing it

@gratefulguy4130 19 күн бұрын

Exactly. Us adding modern comforts, technology, and infrastructure just made it worse. Without finishing the civilizing of the peoples in Africa it was always going to end like this. Now they blame us for trying to lift them out of endless mud hut tribal warfare just like they blame us for ending slavery. But hey, now they just pretend to have actually been us and done all the things our fathers did, so no need to acknowledge their almost total lack of any accomplishments for all of recorded history.

@Krokmannetjie 5 күн бұрын

Very true

@bryanodriscoll2123 Жыл бұрын

I believe that the largest contingent of foreigners in the Rhodesian security forces were South Africans followed by Americans and British, and then probably Australians and NZs. Many of the Americans did not integrate very well. Quite a few Portuguese also joined after the communists took over in Angola and Mocambique. I also remember seeing some Irish, Canadians(one of them was a full-blooded Cree Indian), Germans, Scandinavians, Italians and Israelis. I'd say that the standard of living in Rhodesia was relatively good for Africans, certainly better than it ever has been since it became Zimbabwe. At least they didn't starve as they did under Mugabe. The only people who really profited from what happened were Mugabe and his thugs and the international corporations. I hear that the scum in charge of Zimbabwe are now targeting Asians as there are no Whites left to destroy. Who can say that South Africa is better off at present than it was before 1994? A few days ago the savages there chanted for the death of all Whites at a huge rally. No doubt, when the country has finally completely collapsed and they are starving they will have their hands out to the hated Whites to feed them.

@terencefranks1688 Жыл бұрын

yes - South Africa is now today,a failed state,with blatant state corruption ever present in all shapes & forms ! The African National Congress (ANC),really conned the naive & ignorant whites,throughout Europe & the rest of the western world & even the communist bloc (as it then existed in eastern Europe),when they went into exile,outside of South Africa. While in exile,throughout the rest of the world,they lived,wined & dined in luxury (at least in most cases),while they railed against minority white rule. Meanwhile,behind the scenes,they never ever really had any intention of doing anything for their own "oppressed" people,as they lived it up outside of SA during their exile. post liberation in 1994,saw the ANC take power in SA & form a new post-apartheid black government,from which time,everything started to go downhill,at calamotous speed,leading up to what we see today,as virtual complete disaster ! They've done very little to house/feed/educate their own people,while both national & local government becomes ever more blatantly corrupt,with each passing day - they don't even attempt to hide it ! Essential government run services are now either under funded,or have become practically non-existent - there is even raw sewage floating down some of the rivers,and heading out to sea + rolling power blackouts,which destroy industry (what's left of it) & also personal life too ! tax money is syphoned off & placed into the pockets of officials & their cronies,without any thought for those (within their own population),that do not have anything ! They day when the ANC won the 1994 elections,which put them into power,was the first day of South Africa's conversion,into a form of Titanic - South Africa today is kaput - sorry to say that,but it's now fact ! Ironically enough,those nations at the forefront of ending white rule viz. USA/Britain,seem to have been visited by kharma,in the form of their own (self-induced)apocalypse,of never ending illegal mass migration,aided & abetted by their own (nowadays),globalist governments ! the claim of the introduction of democracy,was (perhaps)the biggest lie ever told ! Democracy never really existed right throughout European history & still does not today in the 21st century - first world white populations lived under feudalism & later on,in non-democratic 2-party political systems,where political systems,via voting,is a mere illusion of choice - nothing ever really changes either ! Even the (former)USSR was never a democracy,where the real power was wielded by a minority,in the politburo/Supreme Soviet & the soviet people were treated as little more than chattels ! Even in ancient Greece (where deocracy)originated,the (then) newly created system,(inclusive of voting),only ever benfitted the minority of the elites,just as it does today in Europe & the US. one can therefore,now see that the African majorities,throughout Africa,were sold a complete lie,by Europeans/Americans,who were (in fact),not ever interested in placing real democracy into Africa & (in particuar)Rhodesia & South Africa - what they were really interested in,is the mineral wealth that exists throughout Africa !

@sestorm2159 Жыл бұрын

Hunting Asians and whites was “normal” during the 50-70 because blacks was told that the Asian and white man are the only problem. Just like today in the US, a lot of Asians are beaten and robbed by blacks because white girls in their 20s tell blacks that they have nothing because of Asians that “stole” success from blacks. There is a reason why most of Africa looks like it does today, they are being lied to today so they can stay poor. Lying to someone that didn’t go to school is easy and family tribes make sure that no one can escape dumbness or the country

@marcoslaureano5562 Жыл бұрын

Agreed. But these young woke clowns don't wanna hear that - even though it's the truth.

@complexblackness Жыл бұрын

Starve? No the UK, US, ETC put sanctions on Zimbabwe, That's why they had problems. Tell the truth, instead of lying. Try that for once.

@matthewclaridge8063 Жыл бұрын

When you talk about the Rhodesian bush war. You have to talk about the Selous Scouts. When it came to military tracking, the Selous Scouts (1 SAS Regiment) was one of the most successful units ever. They were engaged in a wide range of operations, from what was known as ‘fire-force’ actions on open battlefields to clandestine missions, deep within enemy territory. The ragged-looking force actually consisted of highly professional soldiers who showed exceptional courage against a bitter and unforgiving enemy. At the height of the War in 1976, the Selous Scouts numbered some 700 men. They worked in small units of four to six men who would parachute or heli-hop into the bush in hot pursuit of ZIPRA and ZANLA guerrillas. The Selous Scouts were lightly equipped, carrying mostly ammunition and water this enabled them to quickly track and close in on the fleeing guerrillas. Once spotted, the Scouts would call for soldiers of C Squadron SAS (Rhodesian) to parachute forward towards the guerrillas, in order to cut them off. The Selous Scouts methods were so effective that they accounted for killing more guerrillas than the rest of the Rhodesian Army put together. Along with the Rhodesian SAS, the Selous Scouts were disbanded in 1980 when Prime Minister Ian Smith handed over to Robert Mugabe’s government and Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. Most of the Selous Scouts made their way into the South African Army.

@robert-trading-as-Bob69 8 ай бұрын

I was in a boarding school in Northern Transvaal in the late 1970s up to 1980. I had some Rhodesian friends who were sent to South Africa for their safety. I wanted to go and fight for Rhodesia when I was old enough, but by the time I finished high school, Rhodesia no longer existed.

@malpreece5008 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this video. I only became aware of the Rhodesian Bush War when I studied about UDI for my undergraduate history degree back in 2011. Modern lecturers are very cynical about Rhodesia, and they focus on what they perceive to be the injustices and inequalities that existed within the country, but the more I read the more I couldn’t help sympathise with the Rhodesians. Rhodesia had its problems, but it was a decent country for the majority, and far better than Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was worth fighting for, and the Rhodesian Security Forces distinguished themselves as impressive fighters.

@allanelder2711 11 ай бұрын

There was no conscription of black personnel for the Rhodesian forces as there were always plenty of volunteers. It seems that Rhodesia's black population feared Mugabe & Co more than they disliked the white Rhodesians running the country.

@phyrr2 11 ай бұрын

Rhodesians had every right to exist as they envisioned and frankly, the entire world lost when they lost. Africa went further into shambles, and not just "Zimbabwe" but the entirety of Africa . The South Africans thought that politically they couldn't back up Rhodesia to a certain point, thinking they would somehow survive where Rhodesia would not. I wonder with present hindsight if perhaps they might have any regret as they'd still have a bordering ally to this day had they found a way to keep Rhodesia alive. Instead, they have been slowly getting tossed into the sea and now China will own most of Africa after its first incursions before and during the Bush War in Rhodesia. The Rhodesians were right and only a blind fool would be willing to see it otherwise. If people thought the original colonizers were bad for Africa, they need to research on the irreparable damage the Chinese have and continue to do to the entire continent. They aren't even sharing in rulership, they are simply taking it all away. This is where the West failed its kin entirely thinking they were all somehow to be untouched by the effect of losing Rhodesia. Oops.

@shauncharlesporter2589 11 ай бұрын

Sadly Rhodesia was betrayed by South Africa and will forever be a blot on our name.

@malpreece5008 11 ай бұрын

@@phyrr2 Sadly, that’s all true. The Chinese are asset striping Zim, and like you pointed out, they dug their claws in back in the 70s when they provided weapons and training to ZANLA. I think the South Africans believed that if they threw Rhodesia to black Africa it would make their situation easier, but it didn’t. They should have just stuck to their guns and held the line with the Rhodesians. Although, to be fair to the South Africans, their support to Rhodesia, after the fall of Portuguese Mozambique, was essential. The SADF often fought shoulder to shoulder with the Rhodesians against the terrorists, and none of the large scale cross border operations would have been possible without South African support. I think one of the biggest factors in the decline of Rhodesia was the British commitment to the Atlantic Charter and the UN, which undermined their role as a colonial power, and required them to move all of their colonies towards self-determination. The British governments insistence on majority rule before independence sounded ‘progressive’, but it lacked any understanding of the situation in Rhodesia. To hand over a prosperous modernised nation such as Rhodesia, to an African majority, who only 70 years before were still an Iron Age society with no written language, was bound to fail. The British government should have supported the Rhodesian government and provided funding so that over time more Africans could acquire the franchise, and a strong African middle class could have been established. As more Africans acquired education and property they would have been more invested in Rhodesia, and unlikely to be persuaded by the hollow promises of midwit African nationalists like Mugabe and Nkomo. Then war could have been avoided and Rhodesia would be a prosperous nation today.

@JohnMoore-xf5wy 11 ай бұрын

Indeed they did.

@anonymous2513456 Жыл бұрын

And everything that they Rhodesians said would happen with majority rule has happened. A country in ruins.

@urbanguru1642 Жыл бұрын

It's happening to all Western civilization.

@DerSchleier Жыл бұрын

Race matters.

@gratefulguy4130 19 күн бұрын

@@DerSchleier race ≠ color

@davidroux7987 Жыл бұрын

Won the battles, lost the war. The dark forces of evil were overwhelming.

@41corsair Жыл бұрын

I blame the UK and US media for a mass misinformation campaign.

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

Truely, and sadly betrayed by people whobshoukd have been their brothers.

@kasikwagoma6740 9 ай бұрын

@@daveweiss5647well your lot should have never left Britain to go and seize black African territory. The brazen cheek and nerve that you have, you think Africa was yours to have. Did we give you our continent, what a bunch of fools that you all turned out to be. You really thought you could overwhelm a continent that is majority black. It was never ever going to work, NEVER. Zimbabwe is black and is ours, you have Britain and that is yours. If you want to resurrect rhodesia, go and do so in Salisbury in England. After all the criminal thug and racist Cecil Rhodes is English and his name is the one that is in rhodesia. So go and petition the local council in Salisbury to resurrect your beloved rhodesia there. Was you cannot ever do is resurrect it in black Africa.... It will never happen.

@user-de5zt7pg8v 3 ай бұрын

Other countries politicians bulshit and backstabbing ways coursed the wars end, Rhodesia forces did not lose the war

@howelltaylor6774 19 күн бұрын

A very true statement. As a Confederate American I can well understand the plight of the Rhodesians. Deo Vindice

@yfdnsr604 11 ай бұрын

Rhodesia will never be forgotten, I love my old country, my family was executed by rebels in 1977 my mom & aunt got lucky & escaped the night before, they hiked over 1500kms in 10 days with barely any food or water, my mom never talks about it, and after a few glasses of wine my aunt will talk about it, some stories are horrific though,

@phyrr2 11 ай бұрын

I hope that you and your family can tell the tales to anyone who is listening for all time to come. The world needs to learn what happened, how we failed Rhodesia, and how us failing Rhodesia ultimately is now failing the West with anything having to do with Africa.

@bracoop2 11 ай бұрын

1500 kilometers in ten days?

@robertmaybeth3434 11 ай бұрын

@@bracoop2 I'm thinking he means 150 km, we all make typos golly

@markaxworthy2508 11 ай бұрын

This does not seem a plausible story. Why would anyone, anywhere in Rhodesia have to walk 1,500 kms for 10 days to reach safety? At best, this is a badly mangled memory. At worst it is false.

@JohnMoore-xf5wy 9 ай бұрын

@@markaxworthy2508 Were you there?

@mattconner11 11 ай бұрын

The funniest part of this is the idea that the US diwant to "interfere with foreign affairs "

@michaelwills1926 11 ай бұрын

Exactly

@tireoghainabu7355 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, anytime the US says something like that I always do a little chuckle followed by a "off course yous dont" 😂

@VandyMan84LA Жыл бұрын

Rhodesia lives in our hearts.

@LeedsUnitedJohn Жыл бұрын

It's a worse place now just like South Africa.

@markjones6564 Жыл бұрын

@@LeedsUnitedJohnabsolutely!!! So so true.

@E-stylz-1967 Жыл бұрын

@@LeedsUnitedJohnsays the colonizer

@peterclark6290 Жыл бұрын

@@E-stylz-1967 Says the man who has never felt loyalty. Rhodesia was similar to every other part of the British Commonwealth, a huge advantage waiting for the locals to adopt the more advanced culture (a wearying slow process anywhere). Zimbabweans will now have to wait many more generations, centuries perhaps, to realise their potential. One species with cosmetic differences bud.

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

@@E-stylz-1967the vast majority of the world would even today be pooping in bushes in a ditch and wiling with their hand while shooing flies from their eyes, living in abject ignorance and poverty (if they even had the luxury of surviving past childhood) if not for the colonizers you hate so much....and you know it, but go ahead and type your grievances into the magic electric machine the colonizers invented for you, in the language they tought you on the internet they allow you to use. Maybe one day when you are mature enough to admit the truth you will thank the colonizers for imparting you a fraction of their civilization.

@Atricapilla 7 ай бұрын

Great video. The side story about the Albanian King is wild. I did not know about him at all.

@nickwillobey2205 11 ай бұрын

Will never ever forget the struggle of the Rhodesians in their conflict. My friend served with the 'Scouts' during it.....many dead heroes.

@mikeparish93 9 ай бұрын

I was there as a volunteer from Texas.

@squiglemcsquigle8414 6 ай бұрын

So you are a war criminal. Got it

@talibaninternetexplorer 2 ай бұрын

God bless you

@alanbstard4 6 ай бұрын

ws not a black majority resistance movement. Many blacks hostile were not Rhodesians. Many, in fact the majority of Rhodesian troops were black. The way Britain and commonwealth turned their back on Rhodesia was a disgrace

@BlesamaSoul 11 ай бұрын

Look at the state of Zimbabwe today and indeed South Africa going down the same hole, the West failed here and allowed the Chinese a huge bound to take resources and play the long game.

@Mike-fj2ln 11 ай бұрын

How about we keep RACE out of this discussion.

@BlesamaSoul 11 ай бұрын

@@Mike-fj2ln geopolitics are a separate issue.... that's what caused the problems along with Communism in Africa. Race was just a side issue drummed up by the useful idiots in the West on behalf of their communist paymasters. Same happens today with green policies

@Arkimedus Ай бұрын

@@Mike-fj2ln lol he's is pretty obviously talking about China the country sticking its commie tendrils into africa, dont know why youre on about RACE

@thebronzetoo Жыл бұрын

The very first Merc pic shown contains Robert K. Brown and Craig Nunn!! Not supporting white Rhodesia was one of the worst foreign policy mistakes ever, right after South Africa.

@ostrich67 11 ай бұрын

If Rhodesia would have given black people equal rights then none of this would have happened. Clearly black people were willing to fight for Rhodesia and against Communist forces despite being second-class citizens. No Communist regime ever took over a prosperous democracy where everyone was equal. The whites saw a black face and saw a communist and a traitor, and of course a savage. Their racism made them blind, and it cost them their country.

@babyseals4872 Жыл бұрын

Couple of additional points that aren’t explored in this film: Many in the govts of the the western nations leading the diplomatic efforts were in fact communist sympathizers that downplayed USSR and CCP involvement and undermined settlement efforts that could have ended in something less than a mugabe takeover. Second, there was a lot of animosity within UK govt for Rhodesia after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Any settlement short of Rhodesian humiliation was to be undermined and sabotaged. The combination of these two factors pretty much ensured this was going to end with the terrorist Mugabe in power.

@zachwilson1103 Жыл бұрын

Agree and I think it’s fair to point out had Carter grown a spine and helped them out things could have gone differently but he was concerned about Cuban troops in Mozambique

@The_ZeroLine Жыл бұрын

Actually, the CIA was always working behind the scenes against Mugabe and the commies. But even the CIA isn’t as powerful as sanctions.

@terencefranks1688 Жыл бұрын

spot on - the UK/US were the main perpetrators of Rhodesia's demise !

@dougearnest7590 Жыл бұрын

@@terencefranks1688 - I would stipulate it was the leftists in those countries - leftist politicians, the media, elitist academics, and young clueless "useful idiots" - I was pretty young and uninformed when the did it to Rhodesia, but it was obvious to me what they were doing when they enabled the communist takeover of South Africa.

@dirkrenierswart6947 Жыл бұрын

History proved them right. They were fighting for civilization. Zim is on its knees, and SA is following. The West should be ashamed

@desmondhull5778 Жыл бұрын

It's called self-defence.

@terencefranks1688 Жыл бұрын

it is indeed ! - unfortunately,that no longer exists !

@desmondhull5778 Жыл бұрын

@@terencefranks1688 The worlds dropped it guard and unfortunately will suffer the consequences in the end.

@terencefranks1688 Жыл бұрын

@@desmondhull5778 it would definitely seem so !

@Rugmunchersauce3 Жыл бұрын

Only wearing flip-flops? No it's not.

@desmondhull5778 Жыл бұрын

@@Rugmunchersauce3 Cant work your comment out and what you mean about the flip flops,I'm lost.

@captainbackflash 11 ай бұрын

A former collegue of mine, fought with the french foreign legion in Vietnam and later in the Rhodesian army in that war.

@robertmaybeth3434 11 ай бұрын

That's amazing. Seriously he must have been some kind of fantastic soldier to survive all that! There are so many questions I'd like to ask that guy if I only could.

@captainbackflash 11 ай бұрын

@@robertmaybeth3434 I am not even sure, he is still alive. He was almost 70, when I worked with him in 1995 and a heavy alcoholic. He told us horrible things about the war in Vietnam.

@robertmaybeth3434 11 ай бұрын

@@captainbackflash Oh my - guys like this are priceless treasures of information that nobody else has, a shame nobody ever thought to write down his thoughts!

@squiglemcsquigle8414 6 ай бұрын

So a war criminal

@captainbackflash 6 ай бұрын

What makes you think thar?@@squiglemcsquigle8414

@dtrapbai9030 Жыл бұрын

"80% US Volunteers Deserted?" That is bulsht my friend. 12% is the correct number. 7% of these were lost in the bush only to be found and buried back home. Some got lost in the bush, to wonder back into base camp 3 weeks, or a month later. Good video otherwise.

@johnherbold8233 4 ай бұрын

Do you have a source? I doubt the 80% figure myself considering so many were acclimated to jungle guerrilla warfare

@WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot-dg1xg 2 ай бұрын

@@johnherbold8233 I can't find a reputable source for the claims made in the video or his comments, but a quick search did show that many Americans served with distinction in the Rhodesian SAS and RLI.

@mikerilling6515 2 ай бұрын

One of the guys on one of the other KZfaq channels, I can’t remember which one had the same stats he went through Rhodesian government documents, and he found that the overwhelming majority of Americans did serve with distinction once they were in ducted What this clown on this video is whining about is basically a lot of the people were lied to by the Rhodesian recruiters They were brought to Rhodesian under false pretenses and then once they found out that they were lied to they left so they weren’t actually in the military of Rhodesia so they could not possibly be considered deserters because they never signed up, but they were smart enough to know that they’ve been lied to and they weren’t going to stick around knowing that they were going to have to be dealing with liars in the government

@mikerilling6515 2 ай бұрын

@peterr7530 16 күн бұрын

@@mikerilling6515 Every government consists of only liars. Rhodesia was sold out just like South Africa, by greedy politicians. If whites could learn how to stick together then we wouldn't have half the problems. But no, we'll rather try and kill each other. I know how it feels to be betrayed by your government. I fought in the SADF and in the 80's in South West and Angola just to be told afterwards that the politicians had f... ked us all over and given the country away. Great fight but for nothing.

@ericawollmuth5055 11 ай бұрын

Anyone care to name one place that has improved after blacks have taken over?

@desertdetroiter428 11 ай бұрын

Name one place that improves for black people once white people take over.

@muxijim6442 11 ай бұрын

The United States🇺🇸, Obama gave you healthcare and saved your murdered economy🫡

@muxijim6442 11 ай бұрын

Botswana?, Ghana?, South África?

@ericawollmuth5055 11 ай бұрын

@@muxijim6442 Every one of those countries is a dump.

@ivicapaic6284 11 ай бұрын

@@muxijim6442Zaboravi si napisati i septicka jama. Prevedi na engleski.

@makara80 Жыл бұрын

Largely OT but what the hell: my favourite (in an ironic, lamentable sense) post-Rhodesia anecdote is the many high ranking ZANU officials that perished in a spate of inexplicable vehicular accidents. Naturally many suspected Mugabe of ordering the assassinations of party opponents/rivals but the truth, when it was eventually established, was far more surreal and, sadly, _very_ African… Turns out the drivers/chauffeurs of these expensive, typically European saloons (I.e. Mercedes) used to ferry officials around often clandestinely stole valuable parts from the cars’ engines to sell on the black market. Naturally lacking such vital components the vehicles became unsafe to drive resulting in numerous deaths, thieves often included! As I say, very African. 😔

@anon2034 Жыл бұрын

lol

@slappy8941 11 ай бұрын

They will cut off their own hands just to blame the white man.

@RobCraig-wf3yi 11 ай бұрын

Yes,it a cut your nose off, despite your face sort of thing.

@G58 6 ай бұрын

What happened to Tongogara then…?

@G58 6 ай бұрын

What happened to Tongogara then…?

@heywoodjerbloume 7 ай бұрын

I was in the RLi and had a bumper sticker,Youre behind me,Im behind Ian Smith so lets go forward together.

@simonrobson2293 11 ай бұрын

When I served in British army had a coupe of guys in my regiment who were Rhodesian and had fought there,and after joined British army.One of my platoon commanders had fought as an officer in Rhodesian army,by birth he was Rhodesian.He was one of my few platoon commanders I liked.After British army I joined legion ,in my basic instruction trained alongside a Geordie he'd been in RTR,British army went absent served in rhodesia went back to UK locked up for absence,escaped guardroom joined legion during training deserted,while feigning sickness from the hospital then from a reliable source joined Spanish legion then deserted,I think the only place he did his time was rhodesia.We had a platoon sergeant who went absent from my regiment fought in rhodesia when he came back he just got a massive fine,he was to good a soldier to be thrown out

@Simon_Hawkshaw 3 ай бұрын

They are certainly not forgotten, and nor are all other combatants of the Rhodesian forces. We remember and thank them all with humility and eternal gratitude.

@LumeoEdits 10 ай бұрын

Yoooo broooo this is insane 🔥🔥🔥 A whole documentary fr 🙌 You went really in depth damn! 😌

@talibaninternetexplorer 2 ай бұрын

zamn

@markmcguire1722 11 ай бұрын

How does the British government like their black majority rule now

@user-mt6kt1yn6q 9 ай бұрын

They GIVE A _uck! They are quite delighted actually!

@bobsalad8692 11 ай бұрын

It will always be Rhodesia to me, same with Burma, they can change the name but they can't change the history and the people that built these nations.

@desertdetroiter428 11 ай бұрын

No one cares what you call it.

@squiglemcsquigle8414 6 ай бұрын

Rhodesia existed for 5 years. Are you gonna deny the real people their history in favour for war criminals and racist dickheads. Telling

@CourageNdunduma 25 күн бұрын

Who built these nations ?

@PeruvianPotato 16 күн бұрын

Grow up, this isn't 1974 anymore.

@Mr-Damage 2 ай бұрын

I like how " the Crippled Eagles " use a SLR in their badge. That rifle truly was the right arm of the free world.

@NotThatGuyPal. 18 күн бұрын

Many of those foreign fighter photos were former members of MACvSOG. The hardest operators this world has seen.

@markaxworthy2508 6 ай бұрын

I know the French RAR officer who was sent to recruit for the French Indep. Coy. of the RR. He told me that most were the like of "butcher's boys" without military experience. He told the Rhodesian Government of this, but he was told to send them anyway. They performed as poorly as he expected and were quickly disbanded. Some became free lance Brightlight militia in commercial farming areas. The three we had at Mtoko/Mrewa seemed agreeable enough. They painted a target on either side of their Cougar for reasons best known to themselves but achieved little. Shortly after the war ended, one of these three was the getaway driver for two other Frenchmen who murdered a European store owner in a dorp north of Salisbury.

@mikerilling6515 2 ай бұрын

OK once again we have to correct the record the Americans did not “desert” The recruiters lied to the Americans about the pay about the food and about other conditions It was the same thing with other volunteers from other nations whoever was handling recruitment at the time was actively lying to these recruits getting them to Rhodesia by telling them whatever they wanted to hear once they got there of course the story changed dramatically now just think to yourself how happy you would be in a job Once you got to the job, you realize the recruiter lied to you. You weren’t gonna get the pay you were told the conditions were going to be nothing like what you were promised you would not be getting the food that you promised everything essentially turned out to be a lie so naturally anybody with a brain would leave that situation.

@howelltaylor6774 19 күн бұрын

What nonsense "illegal independence". The Rhodesian government had every right to declare independence. Just like the 13 colonies in America did.

@The_ZeroLine Жыл бұрын

Just going down this rabbit hole after listening to the unedited Green Leader recording. Good stuff.

@Rugmunchersauce3 Жыл бұрын

You shouldnt go down ANY rabbit holes. You'll come a cropper and get stuck, plus think about the poor rabbits home you just destroyed with your fat arse. Best just stay at home, keep away from holes... unless it's just to stick yer knob in.

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

What's the unedited green leader recording? Link?

@The_ZeroLine Жыл бұрын

@@daveweiss5647 Hopefully, this channel doesn’t auto delete comments with links: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rth8ftOmmL_cqWw.html

@davidcolquhoun3013 Жыл бұрын

Just to point out a very obvious error, at 3:14, the producer clearly doesn't know where Rhodesia is as he/she has placed the Rhodesian Flag over both Rhodesia and Zambia.

@TrevorMoses312 Жыл бұрын

Seems that the producer forgot that the Rhodesian Federation ended with the independence of Malawi and Zambia 🥴🥴

@edwardhawkey5714 7 ай бұрын

Yup, a little off i would say. But then as you all know Africa is a country!!!🤣

@paulbrownett3673 10 күн бұрын

It was a tad hairy at times. Selous Scouts were tough as - but in the bush there was only so much roast baboon you could eat - very stringy.

@rsabardoelectrical Жыл бұрын

My Great Grandfather was part of the first Pioneer Column that went up into Africa and established Fort Salisbury (today Harare the aids ridden capital of the world). They fought against extreme odds and this dna has passed down through the Rhodesians, for us, the Rhodesians never die.

@user-qs9yn2zn4m 3 ай бұрын

My home, my love, Umtali and lived in the vumba right next to mountain lodge hotel and leopard rock. Beloved memories of my early life, left school Nov 1972 and into the height of the war, god love and bless all Rhodesians ❤❤

@gidi3250 11 ай бұрын

3:18 what happened to Botswana? And to Zambia? True their where incursions especially by Rhodesian military forces into their neighbours, but they did not occupy them

@mikerilling6515 2 ай бұрын

Mugabi was not fighting for black majority rule he was getting poor blacks to fight for his black communist rule Plenty of Americans volunteered fresh from Vietnam, and quickly found out that the people in Rhodesia were lying them and proved to be just as deceptive as the politicians in America, which is why many of the Americans got up and left. If you were promised a job and a certain amount of pay every week , and have these conditions and this amount of pay every week and then it turned out to be an entire lie. Would you stay at that job?

@user-hd3on9ou7g 21 сағат бұрын

It was the RLI Soldier's passion and love of their Nation and their camaraderie that kept me there. Went in as an ASA Comms Liaison and returned when enlistment was up as a Crippled Eagle.

@makara80 Жыл бұрын

Well this is refreshing, foreign volunteers defined as _foreign volunteers_ ! That’s a rare thing as such men were/are typically misdefined as ‘mercenaries’ - an inaccuracy with intentionally negative connotations propagated by biased contemporary reportage and modern appraisal. Foreign recruits drawing exactly the same pay and conditions as their Rhodesian counterparts and where previous military experience was _not_ conditional to enlistment affirms _volunteer_ status. Anyone saying differently is talking bs! They try exactly the same disingenuous nonsense on with South Africa’s ‘mercenary’ 32 Battalion too.

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

True, the west is rife with traitors, especially in the media. It will be our downfall.

@ludo9234 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this. So much new information i hadn't heard before along with many pictures of true heroes. Not forgotten by many in England.

@akwida 11 күн бұрын

10:25 It's the "Rebel in Rhodesia".... I read his articles when I was a kid. They were great!!

@peterr7530 4 ай бұрын

Zimbawe! Another gem of African democracy at its best performance.

@tiggytheimpaler5483 11 ай бұрын

My uncle has his emergency seperation papers. My grabdmother had foubd she had cancer so he came back to the states but once she recovered and was stable he tried to come back but it was not to be. Still has some of the, souvenirs, that im sure the atf would be hard pressed to get from him

@allanfeatherstone3876 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting

@atilla6612 11 ай бұрын

Great stuff 😎

@helenrenee8105 Жыл бұрын

Zimbabwe has suffered since their victory

@desertdetroiter428 11 ай бұрын

So.

@desmondhull5778 11 ай бұрын

Self inflicted.

@jackholman5008 11 ай бұрын

So the coloniser should have kept their stolen lands?

@helenrenee8105 11 ай бұрын

@@jackholman5008 they stole it fair and square

@desmondhull5778 11 ай бұрын

@@jackholman5008 The colonisers built the country up,ie roads ,buildings,infrastructure,economy.Bit better than mud huts.

@scottstewart3254 11 ай бұрын

im fortunate to have met a tracker from that war and am training with him.

@karibakid 8 ай бұрын

Where and what army he must be in his late 60s early 70s

@BASILPANAS Жыл бұрын

Very informative video, thank you! Where did you find all that video of the war?

@d.j.2068 11 ай бұрын

Ian Smith was a hero

@markaxworthy2508 4 ай бұрын

The comments below have a lot of gung-ho Americans contributing enthusiastically two generations too late. I would like to qualify their enthusiasm by presenting another side to the small American manpower contribution from my own experience. Some American manpower was of very questionable quality. Ray G. was a plump, pistol enthusiast (inevitably known as "Ray Gun") who joined the police reserve but who went home when he got sprayed with somebody else's blood during his first vehicle ambush. I had to stop the amiable Arnold G. from wearing a bright yellow Boston Marathon t-shirt in the bush while Brightlighting on a farm. (Top human being. I liked him a lot). Bob C. thought we should project giant chameleons onto smoke screens because he had heard that Africans, and therefore Terrs, were superstitious about them. His previous claim to fame was reporting a Florida pizza chain to the John Birch Society for using Yugoslav tinned peppers! Another guy, whose name I can't remember, thought Terr green tracer was fireflies! My favourite was Kevin B., who decided not to join up after all, but instead promised to send me an unrequested bullet proof vest when he got home. Instead he had the courtesy to send me a postcard from California apologising that he couldn't afford one. He finished with, "Better to stay lucky, I guess". I followed his advice.

@HenryParkes-kp1yc 2 ай бұрын

Great anecdotes! In 1977 I had a guy from Michigan - Mike D - in my unit. Down in the Mateke Hills, we rounded a bend on a footpath and he came face to face with his very first real live jumbo, dropped his rifle and took the gap. It took us 30 minutes to rope him in out of the gungen. A few months later, down in the Nyajena, one of our landrovers, halfway in the convoy, hit a cake tin. Mike D had been near front of convoy, behind me, and was shaken by the fact he had ridden over it and not detonated it. A week later we went on R & R and we never saw him again. Another time, two of us - being the only suckers available while in BYO for a couple of day - were tasked with driving from Brady Barracks to Beitbridge to bring back an American AWOL who got busted trying to slip through to South Africa. At Beitbridge BSAP, we signed for the offender and the cop said " hang on, don't forget his car". Being close to 1700hrs, my sidekick departed for BYO with the prisoner in the Landy, a risky choice but it was getting late and we didn't want to stay overnight. It took a while to get the car released but never mind - it was a mustang! My eyes nearly fell out my head. I drove that machine to BYO on my own in the twilight, foot flat, china. One of the best drives of my life!

@markaxworthy2508 2 ай бұрын

@@HenryParkes-kp1yc Thanks for that. I was glad the Yanks, whatever their quality, were there. At least they turned up, albeit in tiny numbers. What worries me is the Walter Mitty, right wing, Americans of today over romanticising the US contribution. The RSF seems to have replaced the Waffen-SS as their favourite wet dream! I remember on exercise once we were using upturned mess tins as substitutes for mines during detection training for AS with prodders. Our Brigadier came up in a Landie and stopped to ask me what we were doing. I replied we were practicing mine detection. "Mines? I didn't see any mines". I was able to point out that his rear driver's side tyre was parked right on top of Mike Franco's mess tin. The Brigadier left satisfied. Mike was less satisfied as half his mess tin was a mangled wreck.

@1HotBeefJerky 11 ай бұрын

So, how is Zimbabwe better now? Is it better than Rhodesia was? I would definitely like to know.

@stephenzeilstra6520 6 ай бұрын

And any other country in the African continent.

@MarkAnthonyHenderson 2 ай бұрын

I read those SOF magazine articles in the late 70s; however, I enlisted in the US Army in 1978. By then the end was in sight for Rhodesia.

@MrKlipstar 9 ай бұрын

The End of the Portuguese Empire in 1974/5 i was 6 years old but i remind all this Post-War troubles. My 3 uncles were Colonial soldiers,one of them in Mozambique's borders with Rodhesia in 1970 to 1972. More aunts and cousins in Lourenço Marques,many more family in Angola,too,only my father service was at Metropole not in Overseas Provinces.What have been lost,my loyal Salisbury !🇵🇹

@shi2oon1987 8 ай бұрын

thanks for using the term "Colonial soldiers"

@franks9759 5 ай бұрын

I served in the RLI from 1977 until 1980. I never saw a M16 rifle in the field by security forces. Think about it, a M16 is 5.56 calibre and the FAL FN and the MAG-58 are 7.62 calibre, imagine the troubles in supplying ammunition or parts in the field of the different calibres. Private citizen may have had them but I never saw one used in the field by security forces.

@dougearnest7590 Жыл бұрын

Had I been a bit older at the time I might have considered volunteering, but not if it meant I had to wear those tight short pants. That look doesn't work for me.

@johnsmith-ht3sy 11 ай бұрын

Actually I never wore shorts, only long pants, it was a personnel choice.

@user-mt6kt1yn6q 9 ай бұрын

Yes . Style and fashion are more important than principals and motivation. Freedom has no value if you can't be stylish !!

@matthewclaridge8063 Жыл бұрын

@vicbittertoo Жыл бұрын

operation eland...

@matthewclaridge8063 11 ай бұрын

@@vicbittertoo I'll see your operation eland and raise you operation miracle....🤔

@richardyoung8526 11 ай бұрын

The Selous Scouts were never 1 SAS. However, the name Selous Scouts had previously been attached to the Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment. The height of the war was not in 1976, it was in 1978 to 1979. Most of the operations of the Selous Scouts was pseudo-ops and observations and reconnaissance in frozen areas and across the borders. Most of the fireforce operations were carried out by the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI). RMY

@simonh6371 Ай бұрын

There has never been a 1 SAS. There are and were 21, 22 and 23 SAS. Those are derived from the WW1 Artist's Rifle regiments. In Rhodesia prior to the UDI, the Rhodesian SAS was 2 Sqn 22 SAS, so a Sqn of the British Regular SAS Regt. This continued 1964-1980 and to this day 22 SAS in the UK does not have a C Sqn, it goes B to D Sqn.

@TiagobritoBrito 6 ай бұрын

I have a question did the the Rhodesian forces unit the mounted grey scouts incorporate any skilled foreign horseman like example the Mongolians, I know the war was a terrible time , but the field craft, fire-force tactics, tracking, shooting skills. Is something I heard was used devastatingly. It’s quite interesting that the recruitment went across the oceans looking for warriors who came with without experience. It’s crazy how a nation under sanctions survived. The present day government complains about sanctions which aren’t even a real threat.

@simonh6371 Ай бұрын

It's just speculation on my part but it wasn't just Mongolians who had a tradition of being skilled horseman and soldiers to the extent of being able to fire accurately whilst riding (bows & arrows in the case of the Mongolians), but the SA Boers had long had such a tradition too, firing rifles whilst galloping, much to the chagrin of the British in both Anglo-Boer Wars. So perhaps this tradition extended into Rhodesia from SA, and maybe long before the Rhodesian wars as there had been Boer migration to Rhodesia since it's foundation.

@s.k.6616 Жыл бұрын

What could have been if the Western powers had not thrown the Rhodesia under the bus.

@matthewclaridge8063 Жыл бұрын

@johnmacpherson9629 Жыл бұрын

Yep

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

The west is rifw with traitors and will sadly fafe the same fate they cursed the Rhodesian and South Africans to, unless we purge them soon.

@desertdetroiter428 11 ай бұрын

Would’ve still gotten their asses kicked.

@fionasmith6868 8 ай бұрын

@@desertdetroiter428 think not .

@cjb5003 6 ай бұрын

My father was there as BSAP.

@MrGoblin60 6 ай бұрын

Yep, Mugabe lived by the dictum of one man, one vote........ONE TIME! Great video by the way. I didn't know about the Albanians or French.

@maxluburic657 11 ай бұрын

1:00 First Gun (MG) from the Left...AR MY EYES PLAYING TRICK ON ME OR is that MY OLD FRIEND: Stoner 63 !? GOOD GOD THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE FINE "LEGO-GUN" !

@Maintfive 4 ай бұрын

I was too young when the fighting stopped, but would have considered it if i had been more than 14 when the country fell. I even considered studying Portuguese, and French as an assistant to getting hired.

@MarkD-vg4st 9 ай бұрын

BLESS THE MEMORIES OF THE UNIT KNEW AS THE SAINTS!

@Sam_the_Sham_and_the_Pharoahs 11 ай бұрын

Just out of curiosity, how great of a place is it now?

@michaelwills1926 11 ай бұрын

Shithole

@user-pv8wr5us7v 7 ай бұрын

Thriving cesspit

@user-sh3tr8cm1v 3 ай бұрын

Not for Europeans, it's ours now...

@drevil4454 Жыл бұрын

Hey that is South Africa today!!!

@JT-5525_ 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it will all be Zimbabwe in the future

@user-sh3tr8cm1v 3 ай бұрын

Can you imagine Africans siding with Europeans to continue colonisation

@hateEdge83 7 ай бұрын

Rhodesia will never die

@henryhunter1876 7 ай бұрын

Rhodesia is gone

@The_ZeroLine Жыл бұрын

Americans finding the conditions too tough?! Why, I never! - an American The mixture of soldiers and nationalities is not surprising. There were Arab Nazi SS divisions and Lebanese-based Polish soldiers in WWII. So, there is nothing surprising here.

@daveweiss5647 Жыл бұрын

This video has a lot of falsehoods, as it seems you do.

@gratefulguy4130 19 күн бұрын

@@daveweiss5647 in your mind things you haven't heard before = false. Unsurprising.

@gratefulguy4130 19 күн бұрын

@@daveweiss5647The German Armed Forces of WWII (specifically the Waffen SS) were the most diverse volunteer force in history.

@alanellis1442 3 ай бұрын

The cowards ran away and setteled in South Africa

@user-kk4di9ys6k Жыл бұрын

A great country destroyed , rip .

@johnmacpherson9629 Жыл бұрын

Yep

@desertdetroiter428 11 ай бұрын

If it had been a great country, it wouldn’t have fallen.

@hernancortez5995 Жыл бұрын

Zanu was led by ndabaningi sithole mugabe took over the leadership towards the end of the war

@TimSerras 21 күн бұрын

There were thousands of ex-Portuguese Army soldiers, black, white and mulatto that were willing to join the Rhodesian Army but were refused. Some were excellent soldiers like Daniel Roxo or Carnaval Ribeiro, who joined the South African Army instead. Why? Because they couldn’t speak English, the Rhodesians never accepted them. South Africans being much more practical solved that problem by creating a Portuguese speaking batallion. Many white Portuguese did join the RLI because they had some English knowledge. Some ex-Flechas (blacks) did join the Selous Scouts but most prefered to join Renamo. South Africans can thank many of those ex-Portuguese Army volunteers, hardly mentioned off-course. Rhodesia prefered to use Renamo in its external operations. That is also hardly ever mentioned. The blowing up of the Beira oil deposits was done with the help of Renamo, for example. Or the destruction of Mutarara raiway bridge. André Matsangaissa, a formidable soldier and founder of Renamo, offered his services to Rhodesia but was turned down. Fortunately an ex-Portuguese secret service agent, Orlando Cristina, convinced the Rhodesians to help and form Renamo. That they did, as long as they operated only in Mozambique.

@richardvaldes3959 11 ай бұрын

Outnumbered, outgunned, surrounded.... and they have a Ludacris kill rate. Rodi 4ever

@scottjohnson9225 Жыл бұрын

Where was Chuck Norris?

@TDC7594 Жыл бұрын

Ask the average black Zimbabwean old enough to remember, whether White rule or black rule works better for them. Alas, this is once again why we can't have nice things.

@dougearnest7590 Жыл бұрын

And why the Left is so adamant about rewriting history and dumbing down schools in general.

@complexblackness Жыл бұрын

Ask them about the sanctions imposed on them by the US, UK and the EU. Then let's talk.

@TDC7594 Жыл бұрын

@@complexblackness sanctions imposed on White ruled Rhodesia by practically the whole world, mostly aid given under black rule.

@Jelkitosix666 Жыл бұрын

@@complexblacknessthe cuba cope 2.0

@mazambane286 Жыл бұрын

@@complexblacknessthose "sanctions" were an eyeblind. They never happened. Besides the chinese jumped in to supply everything the West would not. Do stop making Mugabe's apologies.

@v_isforvictory9366 Жыл бұрын

goes to the comments - sighs. :( -

@ColBishop 11 ай бұрын

....and look what Mugabe did to the country

@G58 6 ай бұрын

3:15 What is that map supposed to be??

@kek7320 2 ай бұрын

Rhodisian military was among the best in the world.

@PaoloCavestro-ey9bb 4 ай бұрын

Glory and honor to free Zimbabwe!!!

@paulcarden5200 Ай бұрын

British soldiers went cause they were only seeing action in Ireland and U. S vets went for the same reason

@andypaterson3462 Жыл бұрын

Never trust an allie . Shite we lost.

@westentrance 3 ай бұрын

Saw several photos of Michigan native Dave McGrady in the vid.

@kobienel4819 11 ай бұрын

I take my hat off to the men that fought this fight. And mogabe was just another hitler. He lived there in his castle and his people with no food.

@gratefulguy4130 19 күн бұрын

Don't insult Hitler like that

@matthewclaridge8063 11 ай бұрын

Hey Lauren, This is my new number. It was good seeing you again. I'm not sure if you know this, but across the road from the forum they just built a new picnic spot that has a missive play ground. If your up for it, we should go there one weekend when the weather's nice and grab some lunch. That way the kids will have something to do while we chat... Matt x