Fireforce is the compelling, brutal however true account of Chris Cocks’ service in 3 Commando, The Rhodesian Mild Infantry, throughout Zimbabwe’s bitter civil conflict of the ’70s—a conflict that got here to be identified nearly innocuously as ‘the bush conflict’. ‘Fireforce’, a tactic of whole airborne envelopment, was developed and perfected by the RLI, along with the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian Air Power. Fireforce grew to become the principal strike weapon of the beleaguered Rhodesian forces of their battle in opposition to the overwhelming tide of the Communist-trained and -equipped ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas.
The fight pressure on a preventing soldier was nearly unbelievable, for the Rhodesians, who have been at all times desperately in need of floor troops, have been generally obliged to parachute the identical males into motion into as many as three enemy contacts a day. Whereas estimates of enemy casualties fluctuate, there appears little doubt that the RLI accounted for not less than 12,000 ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas—however not with out price.
Fireforce isn’t for the squeamish. Though it has been written with unforgettable pathos and humor, it tells of face-to-face fight within the bush and demise at point-blank vary. It’s a guide which does nothing to glorify or glamorize conflict, for as Chris Cocks discovered at such a younger age, conflict is merely a list of struggling, destruction and demise.
Fireforce has been described by critics as being to the Rhodesian Warfare what All Quiet On The Western Entrance was to World Warfare I and Dispatches was to Vietnam. Learn it … it should an expertise you always remember.
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