The Rhodesian Bush War reveals an uncomfortable truth about Western democracy, that lofty language about majority rule and human rights often collides with cold geopolitical calculations, leaving ...

A small white minority seized control of Rhodesia. Tacit support and weak condemnations extended the harmful regime.

With an apparent stalemate in the full-scale war in Ukraine, concern is rising among governments and within the counterterrorism community that extremists will pour into the country. For nearly a ...

Editor’s Note: This is a long-form manuscript by former Green Beret and SOFREP contributor Curtis Fox examining the Rhodesian Bush War, decolonization, and the political decisions that shaped modern ...

After writing a novella about the Rhodesian Bush War, I had a number of interesting people get in touch with me. One of them was Auddis Ward, an interesting fellow if ever there was one! Auddis served ...

Britain’s Harold Wilson once called breakaway Rhodesia “my Viet Nam”—and with good reason. Since Rhodesia declared its independence in 1965, Wilson’s war of economic sanctions has cost Britain an ...

Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, has died at age 88. Smith, who recently ...