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Disappearances and Political Killings: Human Rights Crisis of the 1990s: A Manual for Action (Netherlands: Amnesty International, 1994).
Abbott, Peter., Botham, Philip. Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965-80 (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1986).
Baxter, Peter. Bush War Rhodesia: 1966-1980 (United Kingdom: Helion & Company, 2014).
Baxter, Peter. Rhodesia: A Complete History 1890-1980 (United States: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2018).
Cross, Glenn. Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980 (United Kingdom: Helion & Company, 2017).
Kapungu, Leonard T. Rhodesia: The Struggle for Freedom (New York: Orbis Books, 1974).
Loney, Martin. Rhodesia: White Racism and Imperial Response (Manchester: Penguin Books, 1975).
Moorcraft, Paul., McLaughlin, Peter. Chimurenga! The War In Rhodesia 1965-1980 (United States: Sygma Books Ltd. & Collins Vaal Ltd.).
Wood, J. R. T. Zambezi Valley Insurgency: Early Rhodesian Bush War Operations (United Kingdom: Helion & Company Limited, 2012).
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Meh 😑
Hi
I’d love to see more attention put on wars in Africa, the Nigerian civil war, wars in Somalia etc would be really interesting
I hope you do the War in Angola between South Africa and Cuba next. The Battle of Cuito Cunanavale
Hey, good luck on the upcoming game! Looks really promising, I look forward to buying it!
The Rhodesian Bush War is a definition of "complete tactical victories but hampered by utter strategic failure".
Soldiers: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually did the Rhodies even have a strategy?
More like they didn't understand "Hearts and Minds". Once the ZANU & ZAPU forces were able to control and constrict the populace into not giving any help to the Rhodesians, the Rhodesians weren't able to get decent intelligence anymore. Furthermore, they couldn't offer protection from the opposition (as they would often commit serious acts of violence to keep said populace in line) so when they instead became more cold towards the populace they lost even MORE trust.
However in the end (as in all wars) it's much more complicated than that. It had a lot to do with England wanting a good PR show for black majority rule and to maintain their mining contracts in some of the surrounding northern countries (which were putting pressure on England to ensure the Rhodesians lost).
From the moment the white minority made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in response to decolonisation, its collapse was only a matter of time.
@nughh3546 Yes, but it goes down like vietnam, a determined people, and an unpopular fight
I have a suggestion, the Portuguese overseas conflict was the conflict that was most associated with Vietnam, which is why it was called Portuguese Vietnam, it is a conflict little talked about, but it is one of the most emblematic conflicts of the decolonization era
I’d love to see a documentary on that as well, I’ve tried to find books on them but there aren’t really that many in English that I’ve been able to find. I’m fascinated by the wars of decolonization.
The Portuguese guinea war was called Portugal Vietnam.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence is what it’s called
Based guinea-bissau, Angola and mozambique
Yes
Never ask:
A woman her age.
A man his salary.
The reason Rhodesia had a licensed copy of the UZI under the name “Ruzi”
"Hello, I like money."
International arms dealing🤑🤑🤑🤑
@@sharkz4151hello, I like my diamonds
What a time to release this video when theres a colonial war raging in the Holy Land
Israel ?
This reminds me of something I read from the Bush War
-Rhodies recover enemy rifles after each engagement
-They keep finding rifles with the rear sight dialed in to the highest setting, practically fucking indirect fire
-They are extremely confused by this
-Eventually they ask a prisoner about it during interrogation
-Literally none of them know what the sights are for, they think that choosing the biggest number makes the gun shoot harder
Warfare in Africa is truly unbelievable
Happened in Liberia and Sierra Leone as well, probably happens everywhere in Africa.
Classic greentext
True African moment 😅
Sub 80 average IQ moment tbh
That’s roughly repeated as well in Brandon Herrera’s video over Kyber pass firearms with another arms guy within the ME. Sights were set to the highest setting on Aks for more power and on ARs people would either pump the forward assist for more power or they would hold down the forward assist so that it would work like a bolt action
It’s a long way to Mukumbura
It's a long way to jawl!!!!
It's a long way from your hometown
Such a great war song
@@highpigeon2534But you can have yourselves a ball
@@renaandou With your Mukkas.
This war was a fantastic example of why tactics and strategy are very different things.
And there was nothing wrong with either! The Rhodesians did damn well considering the resources at their disposal.
There is no other military force on this planet which could have done it better under the circumstances.
Prove me wrong.
@@Phansikhongolza
The British during the Malayan Emergency. Same schtick, but the Malaysian Tories won.
The Rhodesians, meanwhile, are just the Confederacy for people who LARP tacticool bullshit. Prove me wrong.
@@Phansikhongolza the ones who killed them take away air support they be gone in days
Soldiers win battles, politicians lose wars.
@@sluggak1363 your statement makes no sense at all. Please rewrite. In English
There are so many complicated and compelling episodes of history like this from Africa. We need a video on the Angolan Border War, the Portuguese Colonial wars in Angola and Mozambique (that lead to final collapse of the Portuguese Empire), Biafra and the Ugandan invasion of Tanzania as a few.
And the Algerian war of independence too.
Honestly I want a video on the Oegedan war.
An african 20th centuries series
It's a shame all the violent african intolerance of European immigration had to lead to war.
Second this. I keep waiting for them to post a Mogadishu video tbh
You should make a video about the Portuguese colonial war, a conflict that also took place around the same time the Rhodesian bush war took place
Portugals vietnam
Yeah there is almost no content on the portugal colonial war
The Portuguese covered the infrastructure such as water treatment and sewerage in concrete to destroy it as they left Mozambique.
Yeah, I would like to see a video on the Overseas Portugese colonial war tbh
@@kiuk_kiks Good. It's only fitting we Europeans take our technology we graciously given to Africa with us. Africa wants to return to the Stone Age before we enlightened Africa? Let them.
Can you please cover the civil war in Myanmar? It is way too overlooked.
This would be a great video
Well….this brings back debate community memories from 2004
This is a good one considering it’s a complicated conflict that is little known in the west.
@impulse_xs it's even, in technicality, the longest running civil war that is still ongoing. It started as ethnic conflict in 1948, I believe, escalated in 2021 to full-blown civil war.
9:35, That pronunciation of Salisbury took a chunk of my soul with it.
He said Eland wrong too 😂
“E”-Land
Not “eL-land”
Did you hear how he said Chimoio?
@@AlexLeadis it Chimoyo?
If you think that's bad, pay attention to how he pronounced all of the African names...
Also, viscount with the s pronounced...
One thing that should have been mentioned is that Smith's government had begun talks with Nkomo looking to unite against Mugabe, and after Mugabe was no longer a threat allowing black majority rule and Nkomo's leadership. This was as close as possible to an equitable solution but was permanently dashed when Nkomo's ZANLA shot down two civilian passenger planes flying tourists to Victoria Falls, murdering the crash survivors.
Bush: Damn whoever did it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
An equitable solution would have been for Smith to allow black majority rule from the start and save the country the whole mess
@@maximipe Britain: Brother, how do you trust the criminals you brought to this land? Do you trust the thief and criminal in your home?
@@maximipe Like Congo?
@@iratepirate3896 the trajectories of Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo are utterly different. Feels like u are trying to make a racially charged comment here but lack the background knowledge to make a coherent point…
My husband served in the SANDF from 2005-15 and he is very interested in his culture (his family members still live in Eswatini) and he loves this channel
Your white husband is still in Zimbabwe
Eswatini also can be known as Swaziland and is called such by many South Africans
@@pipipupu5104 My husband is NOT white he is Zulu/Japanese why would you think my husband is white when most of his extended family lives in Eswatini 🇸🇿
@@MayumiC-chan9377so you’re going to be a single mother in the future? #Mudshark
@@pipipupu5104 bro...
Was waiting this one. I find this a very interesting and overlooked conflict.
I didn’t think I’d find you here.
Very true!
It's not overlooked, it's just not particularly relevant to the world today. The pastefolk were wrong and needed to go. And that's how it played out and that's how the people who matter are going to remember it and teach it 🤷♂️
My father lived right on the border near Murehwa (Rhodesia). Lived through hell, fought like hell. His whole family had to defend their farm and animals from night raids and full scale raids. Amazing man, but the war has left its scars on the family, forced off their farm right after the war.
Is he white? Shame if so
If he was rhodesian, glad he was kicked off, he robbed the natives of their land.
My comment keeps getting removed lol
Anyway, Rest in Piss if he was white
My friend's family is from Zimbabwe. We went to visit his family there a few years back and stayed at his property, a few hours north of Harare. His grandfather fought the guerillas in the bush wars and it was brutal. In his cigar room he has all sorts of cool stuff like African lion spear, his old FN FAL, Elephant tusk and a bunch of other cool stuff. He always tells my friend that they wouldn't have held out so long if it wasn't for western support. They had support from prominent American and Israeli businesses. Zimbabwe is a beautiful country, will definitely be visiting again.
@@stoda01How to be Berber and say “bbbb” in one sentence
Ian Smith once challenged Mugabe to walk with him through a densely-populated township (historically black-owned land near towns and cities) without any security and see who made it out alive. Smith was convinced of his position and favour amongst the black population right to the end. Mugabe refused.
Ian Smith = CHAD 💯
smith was a white supremacist
And yet he still lost. These white supremacists have a pretty bad track of winning wars
@@aleksandarvil5718 More like smith knew he could kill Mugabe if he did that and so did Mugabe well claiming proof of his superiority.
I.e. it was bait no matter the response he got something out of it.
@@aleksandarvil5718smith was a racist
Finally a Rhodesia episode
Ah yes the white supremacist enclave
Ww call it zimbabwe now, land of million billionaires. 🇿🇼💰
@@sakurakou2009 Rhodesia
@@sakurakou2009look at how zimbabwe looks compared to Rhodesia have a TND
@@Epic_2.0 It is possible to have a functional country without having to be an apartheid state
I'm so glad he's finally covering this war. As a South African I can really appreciate this conflict being explained more because they don't teach this at school here in South Africa
they don't want you to know what really happened because they are doing the same thing to your once great country
they dont even teach us about our own bush war dawg
White people = prosperity. Case in point Rhodesia vs Zimbabwe. One had mass starvation and the other was stable in spite of communist attacks
@@TPDTND once great my ass, only if you think racism and tyranny are cool
@@TPDTND It's not the White's land or the Bantu's land, it's the Khoisan's land.
As a Zimbabwean🇿🇼 this is by far the best documentation of the war I've seen covered, with less focus on the propaganda and biases, but highlighting the vast complexities that often blurs the lines during wars! Thanx mate!
As a African American who is a history buff and could never get a good account of the war your approval speaks volumes.✊🏾
@@E-stylz-1967 aye, unfortunately most international medias mainly focus on the Rhodesian perspective of the war, hence, why they call it the "Rhodesian Bush War" when we call our Liberation War. Often trying to justify them and never seeing why so many ordinary folks flocked to fight the Rhodesians despite the abuses and dangers
American here, I find y'all's history fascinating and only wish the best for Zimbabwe going forward.
@@noahjohnson935 thanks mate, means a lot really
It’s pronounced Rhodesia
Finally some african cold war stuff!
Strangely enough, this conflict was loosely intertwined with the Angolan Wars and the South African Bush War
Not loosely. We cooperated with them until we abandoned them Same enemy
Thank you guys for doing a video on this, you have no idea how few people actually know this part of history
It has been a long day. This video is a gift at the end of the day. Thank you.
Can you make a video on Portuguese colonial war?
Yes! That war is criminally ignored! Can’t believe Portugal had a dictatorship that long as well!
So glad you guys finally did a video on this. Cheers from all the South Africans
Armchair historian got that high taper fade lmao. But genuinely love the work keep it up bro!
Nice, you finally make a video on this overlooked conflict! Can't wait to see what's in store...
6:11
Love the Metal Gear Solid homage here! I guess you did this as one of the main characters of the game - Gray Fox - was involved in this conflict.
i mean its only overlooked if you don't have to deal with white supremacists
@@DarkPuppy9Britain: You mean criminals, brother
Remind me of phantom pain development
@@DarkPuppy9Many Zimbabweans miss Rhodesia because it was the breadbasket of Africa
@@ShotsMerkzAll except Zimbabwea still is? So less weird bullshit in defense of a dead fascist state
Fun fact: the weapon selection scene reminds me of Metal Gear Solid and Dr Naomi Hunter was found in Rhodesia
That weapon selection scene IS from Metal Gear Solid!
Foooox!
Zimbabwe.
This is awesome! I remember requesting a video on this topic a few months back. Very happy with the work!
I am SO happy you covered this! Im a big nerd for African war conflicts in the cold war, and the bush war really peaked it. Amazing video and well documented especially without the biases and all that.
You should come over to South Africa for a visit lots of veterans and stories my grandpa was part of the Rhodesian police but he got killed in the conflict
Living in the U.S., I have had the interesting experience of getting secondhand accounts on both sides of the racial/political divide in the conflict. My father's colleague from work was a White Zimbabwean (Rhodesian citizen) while my roomate's father and mother were Black Zimbabweans who lived through the later stages of the War and the Gukurahundi that followed.
While their experience were very different, neither have been well-understood in their entirety to the outside world. I think a lot of this is because this war contemporary with the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the Boycott South Africa Movement, with many Civil Rights leaders drawing parallels between decolonization and desegregation.
Conversely, many detractors of the Civil Rights movement saw the Rhodesian Bush War/Second Chimurenga as a harbinger of what could happen if Whites "gave too much ground", and saw it as evidence that Civil Rights and decolonization were mere shams for the subterfuge of Communist oppression.
Neither is totally correct. While the Rhodesian government was a colonial government in nature that implicitly limited Black franchise, there were divisions within racial groups over who to support, why and under what conditions, that made for rather imperfect parallels to overseas civil rights movement; there were idiosyncrasies that made this a war one in which race relations mattered but did not constitute the entire conflict. Practical considerations and personal gain mattered as much as lofty ideology, and local concerns mattered more than most casual international observers appreciated. Foreign influence was not the ultimate reason for the conflict; foreign powers can't plant ideas in anyone's head like magic and brainwash and entire populace into fighting a war.
The dysfunction of the Mugabe regime that followed also was not an inevitable outcome of Black-majority rule, as Botswana , Namibia, and Mauritius had done quite well after independence. The Kleptocracy and dysfunction of Mugabe's rule were also real and serious, not figments made up by minority-rule apologists. The failure of the farm-seizure campaign was also more about incompetence, favoritism, and broken promises than vengeful racial animus.
While every Black Zimbabwean I've met has seen majority rule as inevitable and ultimately a good thing, I've never felt like they've shown any animus towards White people like myself or White Zimbabweans/Rhodesians. I certainly don't see Zimbabwe as being any kind of harbinger.
@@nathandixon2066My great grandfather was a ZANU freedom fighter.. 🇿🇼💪🏾
@@augusthoglund6053 Mugabe also hurt different black ethnicities far more than he hurt the white ones. Gukurahundi killed far more members of black ethnic groups. My (white) mother's side of the family lived in Rhodesia then Zimbabwe, and they weren't fond of Ian Smith or Robert Mugabe, that's for sure.
@@bajscast This is a good point' while the displacement of British farmers gets more attention, probably because the (White) diaspora draws more attention to it, I've always found Gukurahindi/Ndebele purges no less important but not nearly discussed enough in illustrating precisely how Mugabe's rot took over Zimbabwe.
In an interesting twist, my current roomate has a (Midlands) Shona father (who calls the Gukurahindi a genocide) and an Ndebele mother.
My roomate's father has never talked to me about this in too much depth with me but as a Lutheran minister involved with local politics he definitely has some outspoken opinions worth taking note of.
It's funny how just yesterday I got an intense interest on the topic of the Rhodesian war and then one of my favorite youtubers releases a video on it. Thank you for your work man❤
Really awesome of you covering such an underrated topic and doing it very well!
I’m sure the comments will be civilized, thoughtful, and full of nuance…
Rhodeboos incoming
Ive seen more of these "civil comments inc" comments than anything actually crazy.
*Black, genocidal, supremacists incoming*
@@theguy8729me
Rhodesians never die, that's what they say.
I learned about Selous Scouts in the Finnish military, had a trainer who was kinda obsessed with them 😅 nice to learn about the whole war now
My urge for FAL's and short shorts has peaked again
I wonder if a certain congressman candidate had a hand in that.
It's a Canon event, that every year keeps coming out
cringe and racist
racist cringe
@TheManinBlack9054 how is that racist?
I’m sure nothing bad will happen now that a nice agreement for governance was made
6:18: Let me guess, Metal Gear?
METAL GEAR!?!?
@@Atreid3s Yeah, the whole scene looks like the gear selection UI from the game.
Beautifully Done Video!!! I'm very thankful you're still making content!!!
"...Zimbabwe emerged from the ashes of Rhodesia carrying with it the scars of decade long war but also the sense of a new found sovereignty".
And they lived happily ever after.................................................
In extreme poverty
@@neonwhitea.1548There's extreme poverty globally.
@neonwhitea.1548 I think thats much better than living under poverty, considered an inferior human being, while all your producitivity goes into enriching the white elites.
you know its funny how the west sanctions a country to hell then later on accuse the same country of failing because of leadership,this nonsense is what ails Zimbabwe to date
@@neonwhitea.1548significantly better then white rule
Thank you for doing some Southern African History, it means a lot to me as my Grandmother is from Southern Rhodesia, my dd is from Namibia and I am from South Africa. Please can you do more southern African History like the Frontier Wars of South Africa or the Bush war in Angola or even the Mozambique Civil War. That would just make may and and other Southern Africans very happy! Thank you and please if possible to do more Southern African history. :)
Yea its amazing to see it covered Im also South African and my grandfather which I never got to know served in Rhodesia and died in the conflict
as someone whose parent grew up in zim during the war thank you for the accurate well presented vid
The was was over by the time it was zimbabwe 😊 unless of course you are a matabele and who's family were put of the 20000 killed by mugabe if so I'm sorry for your loss the white rhodesians tried to tell the word that that would happen
@@s.wvazim6517 they lived there before during and after the war
We say Rhodesia don’t we?
@@Meyer-gp7nq right now it’s called Zimbabwe
Haven't actually looked into the war before, thanks for the coverage
Yeah baby was waiting for this video for a long time
LEKKER! Waited a long time for this.
Ja boetie
These animations are becoming godlike and entertaining!
Incredible work. Incredible art, and stunning editing and animations. I instantly subscribed. So many history channels use AI now that I've been totally disenchanted by them. I'm so glad to find one that doesn't use AI art and actually hires real artists to create their videos!
"We say Zimbabwe now, don't we ?"
"Do we ?"
Yes? Thats what it says in the maps.
@@kriysixvector4552r/whoosh lmao
Fantastic movie haha, makes me think of it every time Zimbabwe gets brought up
@@Apenas_Um_Brasileiro I get the joke. Just thought I was being equally funny. Clearly my sense of humor sucks.
NO!!!!! RHODESIA FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!
I LOVED the MGS item display!
You should do more of this
6:48 I don’t like zanla but “we are our own liberators” goes hard
Commies never to hard, little kid
@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971 I said the poster went hard. Also little kid? I’m 26. I bet you’re 15 never had a job yet and watch fox news
@@goldenfiberwheat238 lol I own a ranch in Montana and my property tax is more than you make in a year, little kid
Bro proud of paying taxes@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971
@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971sure thing kid.
You forgot to mention that after independence there was tribal warfare and genocide en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi
What does that have to do with the video though?
The consequences of the guerillas winning @@ayodejiolowokere1076
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 It's something that happened in the aftermath of the war it would make sense to include it just like it makes sense to include what happened to Germany after the second world war and not just end it on the surrender
@@RaffieFaffie it also had nothing to do with the war.
@@ayodejiolowokere1076 Yes
Another amazing video! Can't wait for the next one!
YO MY DAWG THANK YOU I BEEN WAITING 🎉 FOR THE THIS LETS GOOOOO
6:11 oh my god, that is definitely an MGS PW reference because i can't think of anything else like this
As a Vietnamese I can say this is relatable.
Ian Smith's government was actually based tho. The leaders of South Vietnam were as corrupt as they come, and Ho Chi Minh was controlled opposition (he worked for the OSS, the precursor to the CIA)
@@lestergreen2828if Ian Smith was so good, why did he have to deal with an Insurgency?
@@alfro201 cause e'20th century politics really had a problem with darker shades of skin
@@jacaredosvudu1638they still do. they can't just shut up about it
@@alfro201because cringe fake Communism. That's one of the reason why
Tysm i was waiting for this!
As well as the content and depth of research, I'm particularly impressed by the animated bits. The detail is very good, especially the FN FAL rifles which I'm more than familiar with, the British semi-auto variant (L1A1 SLR) having been my personal weapon for 5 years.
Superb work!
im from zim its nice to see the countries history
I've been waiting for this vid good job to you and your team👍
“One fire fights one fire, one nail one nail, rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.”
OMG! I liker the story about Rhodesia and seeing u made a video on this topic just made my day!
Continue with good work cuz u are on fire 🔥🔥
Zimbabwean.
The animation is awesome, I like to learn history, and this is very cool!
Been wanting this one for awhile!
its a great day when armchair historian uploads
In Zim rn, I absolutely love the fact y’all covered this war. One of my favorite conflicts to study
Based UNSC
You misspelled Rhodesia bruh
@@igotfriendsinlowplaces2971 sadly they lost 😞 so much potential wasted with the current corrupt government. Imagine turning the breadbasket of Africa, the hidden jewel, into a poverty stricken ,hyperinflation suffering, corruption ridden nation.
@@alexiel4406 be safe my man
@@sl_ipper it is impossible to legislate equality among blacks and whites as they are unequal
When an asymmetrical war tactically becomes attritional based it is a nightmare
Well put together video! Thank you for this
I already know these comments are going to be enlightened and wise with no revisionism
Sorry but you must choose between racism against Race A and racism against Race B
@@ASlickNamedPimpbackI mean, blacks were just giving the whites of what they had to endure for much, much longer, it's just karma doing it's work.
@@ASlickNamedPimpback I'd rather not.
@@ASlickNamedPimpbackteam based racism (racism update 20.24)
@@deaghostyt2217 Introducing: Casual Racism, Competitive Racism, and the new Payload Racism!!!
I met a former white Rhodesian soldier. Hes a permanent nomad, traveling the world. I asked if he planned to settle and he said no, his home is gone is what he said.
Recently Zimbabwe offered him money and land if he would return snd do a tour in the Zimbabwean army and a farmer but hes one among hundreds of thousands of white Rhodesians the Zimbabwean government has offered money and land too since ever since the Europeans left, the country fell into despotic poverty and famine.
Idiots
That's not true.
Why are you lying dawg 😭 Zimbabwe's government only offered to pay compensation to white land owners after the land reforms, and no they didn't call any Rhodesian nomads, the fact you need to lie to feel better is a mix of funny and pathetic
@@smeekle2000 Said the expert in truth.
How old was he? If he was 20 at the end of this conflict he would be in his mid-60s by now. No same country would ask a 60-something dude to serve a tour, and I find it highly unlikely that this guy has been travelling for over 4 decades with no plan to settle anywhere
I don't know how you knew that for the last month. I have been researching and reading books on the subject. But I cannot say how happy I was to see one of your videos about the rhoadesian bush war pop up on my feed
Recommendations?
Great content!
Cheers!
I didn't see any baby poop camo on those FALs.
armchair historian wit the low taper fade sheeeesh
I remember asking you to cover the Zimbabwean history and you have done it bro! Thank you so much for a balanced exposé! Keep up the good work! Much love from a free Zimbabwe 💪🏾🇿🇼✊🏾🇿🇼💪🏾✊🏾🇿🇼💪🏾🇿🇼✊🏾
You live in poverty
@@sneeky6869 not really at least that's what mainstream media says. I don't blame them. Our country has problems yes like any other country. The key thing is to realize that blacks and whites are all equal before God and thus there should be no discrimination. We should be able to work side by side with no prejudice or bias. There must be a collective effort to make not only Zimbabwe but the world a better place. This division must fall.
@@tatendaemmanuelmadzime tell that to the EFF in south africa
My favorite appraisal of the Rhodesian effort under Smith in The Rhodesian Bush War/Second Chimurenga, was the one by a historian who described it as the pinnacle of "Tactical brilliance and strategic ineptitude".
It was a cautionary story of winning the battle and losing the war.
Got a good friend who was in that war. Sounded wild.
FINALLY I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS IN THE MAKING! THANK YOU! Greetings from an English Zimbabwean.
"English Zimbabwean"
Replace it with White Colonizer and its correct
@@YourSocialistAutomaton Are all children doomed to be remembered only by the sins of their forefathers? Or do you mean that he himself took land at the end of a rifle?
@@jonatanlj747 yes
@@YourSocialistAutomaton so with this knowledge does that mean i should js refer to young german children as nazis? makes no sense
@@YourSocialistAutomatonexactly... Someone probably employing a minimum of 25 " Zimbabweans" or are you already looting SA?
Im excited for these comments. Also great video keep it up man
Rhodesians never die
@@brianfischer9942 Looks pretty dead to me
@brianfischer9942 I don't know a thing about this war, but I'm pretty sure some Rhodesians died. That tends to happen in wars, even super lopsided ones like Desert Storm have some deaths on the side of the militarily superior force.
@@doodi122250:1 KD lol
@@urmum3773 this ain’t cod kid
FINALLY. Danke/gracias/shookran/thank you/ ευχαριστώ!!
My favorite part was when you showed the weapons they acquired from the Soviets
and it has worked out so well
Hey Armchair Historian! Since you are covering southern african conflicts, can we have something around the South African Border War? Since it feels like the Mozambican Civil War, Angolan Civil War, Rhodesian Bush War and the South African Border War are all part of some "Great Southern African War"
This is a good video, I never heard about the Bush War until now
Thank you for covering wars in Africa. I would love to see more.
I never even knew this conflict happened thank you for teaching me something new that I never knew I'm always about studying and learning about history but I never knew that this happened during the time of Vietnam. 🌟
Watched the smallest bits of the actual events back in the day. News coverage was not good, so this finally gives me some understanding of what went down back then.
Never underestimate Africa, someday soon they're going to surprise the hell out of the rest of the world.
6:13 love the Metal Gear Solid item menu!
12:09 I was full-on expecting a VPN ad to come in at this part.
OMG, FINALLY. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BRO.
My grandfather fought in the war he moved to south africa after it ended
Should have went back home
@davidgarcia5593 Speaking as a white Zimbabwean. May I ask why? Africa is our home. We are Africans too and proud of it. We won't leave. In fact, many white Zimbabweans have remained in Zim and are mainly farmers or wildlife conservationists like my family and myself. In fact, last year, quite a few white Zimbabweans returned, owing to improvements in the farming/agricultural industry and land leases.
@@zim_christ_lion as an Australian i know many families who came to Australia from South Africa and Rhodesia because their family was personally targeted with violence.
@@zim_christ_lionyou are not Africans, you’re European colonisers and occupiers
You are a settler, go home@@zim_christ_lion
The comments are oddly civil
Ikr I went looking and found no agitators
@@ghostpilot218 im doing my best
Give them a while the white racist will soon flock in
@@ghostpilot218 yeah ive only seen 1 so far
Thanks for this video guys, such an important topic to cover, one on which it's challenging to find even handed content like yours.
I enjoyed all the little game references, especially the Metal Gear Solid for the weapon selection.
Hello everyone I look forward to this!
14:30 I'm sorry, do you know how jacked you have to be to akimbo FN FALs? Bro is HIM
Can you do the great northern war? Also the video was very well put together!
Yes. You a medic🤔⛑️
@@KonradvonHotzendorf No, It’s a Swiss flag!
@@neutralyodler Ich weiß. Der Witz is antik 😅🇩🇪
Just pulling your leg
Rhodesians Never Die is a catchy tune all things considered though.
Hey ArmchairHistory ! I don’t think you’ll ever see this but I’d love it for you to do a video of the battle of Jutland ! I’ve watched you for a few years now but I don’t think you have ever done it, also it would be extremely nice to have some more naval content as I know many people like their boats ! Anyways, thanks to all that have read.
Yours truly - Quackz
"..!!We making to Mother Base with this one!!.. 6:13
Zimbabwe GDP remained under recession from independence untill 2010, when it finally grows and crashes during late 2010s and never recover from that point onwards
This is a very good video, i recommend it
I'm after moving from Ireland to Australia. if you could do a video on some history from either country it would be good.
love all your content btw