Airland Battle Doctrine
By Mark R. Schwartz
I n the late 1970s the US Army and Air Force developed a new doctrine
for conventional war that was centered on the idea of being able
to rapidly defeat massed Soviet ground formations. Among other
things, it shifted away from past reliance on tactical nuclear weaponry
and instead emphasized a new way of fighting conventionally. Both
services moved to the same concepts for different reasons, together
creating what became known as “AirLand Battle Doctrine.” It would
be applied in an adapted form during the First Gulf War in 1991…
The Selous Scouts:
Black Ops Elite for a Doomed Cause
By Kelly Bell
One of the notable units to come out of the 1964-79 Rhodesian Bush War (a.k.a. the Second Chimurenga War and the Zimbabwe War of Liberation) was the Selous Scouts. The unit was organized to fight using the same tactics as the enemy guerrillas of the ZANLA/ZANU and ZIPRA/ZAPU factions and defeat them. The Selous Scouts engaged in a wide range of operations, from “fireforce” actions on open battlefields to clandestine missions in enemy territory…
Operation Savannah: Task Force Zulu &
the Rommel of Angola
By Kelly Bell
As Portuguese military personnel and settlers prepared to depart Angola in 1975, a civil war was breaking out in that newly independent colony. The three anti-colonial insurgent movements—FNLA, UNITA and MPLA—were each making a bid for power. The FNLA and UNITA had some connections with the West, but the MPLA was inclined toward the Soviet bloc. . .
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