OT: Rhodesia
As some of you may know, I’ve been studying up on Rhodesia over the past couple of years. More than ever, I feel like this war has a lot to teach the US that we’ll probably never stoop to learning. Having finished Dennis Croukamp’s The Bush War in Rhodesia recently, I have started on The Rhodesian War from the Stackpole Military Series. This last book, which was originally published in 1982 and revised in 2002 or 2006, is just what the doctor ordered. Having read Fire Force (Chris Cocks) and The Saints before Croukamp’s autobiographical work, I had a lot of questions knocking about in my head. The Rhodesian War contextualizes everything I have read so far beautifully. I just can’t write enough good things about this book.
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“We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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