1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: Game The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. But we're setting 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: aside all politics now because it's the start of the 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: second hour on Monday. We're gonna do Medal of Honor Monday. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: Then we're gonna go back into the history of the 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Rhodesian Bush War. And look, we'll be back to politics 7 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 1: next hour. There's all kinds of stuff we have to 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: get to Ukraine, stuff, emails, the Biden administration, what they 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: did with Social Security numbers and more. But you know 10 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,160 Speaker 1: what now is we find an American hero, someone who 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: earned a Medal of honor, and we remember his name 12 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: and we remember his deeds. And this is something I 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 1: really want to encourage you to do this in your 14 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: own life. In some way. I didn't do any of 15 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: these things. Trust me, I'm not that guy. I'm just 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,639 Speaker 1: reading them right. You can do this yourself. You can 17 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: do this in your home. You can do this in 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: your work, in your Sunday school, in your school. You 19 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: can talk about these people. You can talk about Archie 20 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: van Winkle. Archie van Winkle was born in Juneau, Alaska, 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: nineteen forty two. He goes and signs up for the 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: Marine Corps to go fight in World War Two. And 23 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: he does, goes and fights in World War two. Okay 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: comes back from World War Two, survives and gets out, 25 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: goes back to regular life. Right then Korea kicks off. 26 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: Archie Van Winkle says, well, I want to get down 27 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: on that. Goes right back into the Marine Corps and 28 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: off to Korea. He goes, and let's find out exactly 29 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: what he did. Hey, honoring those he went above and beyond. 30 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: It's Medal of Honor Monday for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: at the risk of his life, above and beyond the 32 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: call of duty while serving as a platoon sergeant and 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: company in action against enemy aggressor forces, immediately rallying his 34 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: men in his area. After a fanatical and numerically superior 35 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: enemy force penetrated the center of the line under cover 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: of darkness and pinned down the platoon with a devastating 37 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: barrage of deadly automatic weapons in grenade fire. Staff Sergeant 38 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: Van Winkle boldly spearheaded a determined attack through withering fire 39 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 1: against hostile frontal positions, and though he and others who 40 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: charged with him were wounded, succeeded in enabling his platoon 41 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: to gain the fire's superiority and the opportunity to reorganize. 42 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: Realizing that the left flank squad was isolated from the 43 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: rest of the unit, he rushed through forty yards of 44 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: fierce enemy fire to reunite his troops, despite an elbow 45 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: wound which rendered one of his arms totally useless. Severely 46 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: wounded a second time when a direct hit in the 47 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: chest from my hostile hand grenade caused serious and painful wounds, 48 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: He staunchly refused evacuation, then continued to shout orders and 49 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: words of encouragement to his depleted and battered platoon. Finally 50 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: carried from his position, unconscious from shock and loss of blood, 51 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: Staff Sergeant Van Winkle served to inspire all who observed 52 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: him to heroic efforts in successfully repulsing the enemy attack. 53 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: His superb leadership, valiant fighting spirit, and unfaltering devotion to 54 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: duty in the face of heavy odds reflect the highest 55 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: credit upon himself in the US Naval Service. How about 56 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: that guy moved on and lived until nineteen eighty six. 57 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: And I don't know why. I always thought this was cool. 58 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Ashes scattered at sea at his ashes scattered at sea. 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: Kind of cool. I'm not wrong about that, Chris. Kind 60 00:03:55,640 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: of cool, right, kind of cool. All right, So let's 61 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: do just a couple minutes of background in case you're 62 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: just now hearing it, which I doubt you are, so 63 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: I already told you last Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in 64 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: hour two, I've been chronologically going through the Rhodesian Bush 65 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: War all right now. To set it up, it was 66 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: a tribal conflict. Originally, the British came in essentially colonized 67 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: the place, turned it into a thriving, wealthy, wealthy country 68 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: where you had to have There were all kinds of 69 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: restrictions on voting. And keep in mind, we're talking about 70 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: a million two million black Africans here, a couple hundred 71 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: thousand Europeans here, Yet ninety five percent of the people 72 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 1: who were eligible to vote were white Europeans. This is 73 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: post World War two. The world's chafing on that, Britain's 74 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: chafing on it so bad. Trying to get them to 75 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: change it, Rhodesia flat out rebelled and just declared independence. 76 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: They said, we're our own country now, We're no longer 77 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: your colony. And this is at a time on the 78 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: planet where the Communists, especially the Soviet Union, Cuba and China, 79 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: they are training rebels and insurgents all over the globe 80 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: to infiltrate, infect and bring down any country that is 81 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:24,800 Speaker 1: not a communist country. And since the sixties, these gorillas 82 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: have been going into Rhodesia. Now, also keep this in 83 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: mind a couple of things. As I mentioned, the world 84 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: sold this whole thing as white versus black, all the 85 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: liberal college professors and idiots in the media and politics. 86 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: It was not that at all. White people and black 87 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: people were working hand in hand in Rhodesia. More than 88 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 1: half of the Cellist scouts, one of their special forces 89 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: type units, more than half of them were black. The 90 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: Rhodesian Light Infantry hugely black. It's a complete lie to 91 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: think it was white for black. That's how the world 92 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 1: sold it as this Nazi state apartheid. That's not how 93 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: it was at all. And the economy was so good, 94 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: especially compared to the other African countries that other Africans, 95 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: Black Africans had been pouring into Rhodesia for the employment opportunities. 96 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: We're talking a very very modern, wealthy, fantastic country. In 97 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: the military, which is going to matter a lot because 98 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 1: they're about to need it. The military was tiny about 99 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: twenty thousand and excellent. These are young men who grew 100 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: up in the outdoors. That automatically helps hunting, familiarity with firearms. 101 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 1: They almost all of them had fathers who fought in 102 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: World War II. Rhodesia was well represented in World War Two, 103 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: so much so that the British government had to tell 104 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: them please stop enlisting, No, no more, you stay please. 105 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: These are hardcore fighting men. There aren't many of them. 106 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: There aren't many troops, and this is really gonna matter 107 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: for today. There are not many truths. Oops. There are 108 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: not many planes. Half their air force was South Africa. 109 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: There aren't many helicopters. They're just they don't have very 110 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: much stuff and also going to be important for today. 111 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: Rhodesia is enormous. You know, when I was a kid, 112 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: my dad used to take me hunting all the time 113 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: all over Montana. Now, if you're in a big state 114 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: like California or Texas, this won't blow you away. But 115 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: if you're not, this this may We would get in 116 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: the cars sometimes and we would drive four five hours 117 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 1: on the highway and we wouldn't come close to being 118 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: out of the state yet four or five hour drive 119 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: at eighty miles an hour on the highway still not 120 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: out of the state. Place is enormous. Montana is enormous. 121 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: Rhodesia was actually a little bigger huge. It's a huge 122 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: place now the final recap, because today it matters is 123 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: our clock, draw a circle on a piece of paper 124 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: or in your mind, the clock matters. Remember, from about 125 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: nine o'clock to twelve o'clock you have Zambia, all right. 126 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: From twelve o'clock all the way down to six o'clock 127 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: you have Mozambique, gonna be a problem. Now from six 128 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: o'clock to about eight o'clock you have South Africa. And 129 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 1: South Africa is really, by this point a huge reason 130 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: Rhodesia is still thriving. South Africa is providing, like I said, 131 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: troops that've been providing other things. And Mozambique, that country 132 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: that is twelve to six. They are currently run by 133 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: the Portuguese. The Portuguese, according to virtually every account I read, 134 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: their military was all but useless, completely useless. That the 135 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: Rhodesians didn't sound like they had any respect for them, 136 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: at all, But that wasn't what was important. What was 137 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: important was Mozambique is on the water. Remember Rhodesha is landlocked. 138 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: Mozambak is on the water, and the Portuguese were friendly 139 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 1: with Rhodesia thus trade oil, Rhodesia is able to sell 140 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: in trade. It's things with South Africa and Mozambique. And 141 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: remember how small that fighting force is. That's a lot 142 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: of border. You can't you can't properly secure a border 143 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: all the way around three hundred and sixty degrees with 144 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: twenty thousand troops. It's just you don't have enough stuff. 145 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: But they didn't have to. Remember, almost all of this 146 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: communist guerrilla infiltration was coming from Zambia, that country that's 147 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: up there from you know ten o'clock, nine o'clock to 148 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,680 Speaker 1: twelve o'clock if just the northwest. And Zambia has a 149 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: big river on the border, so it was even easier 150 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: to secure it. Look at the river, kill the terrorist 151 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: when they're crossing the river, and you're good to go. 152 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: But nineteen seventy four comes and really this was the 153 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: moment Rhodesia was lost. It'll take years that we're about 154 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: to fight our way through these years, but what happened 155 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy four really screwed them bad. In nineteen 156 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: seventy four, the Portuguese lose Mozambique and Mozambique becomes a 157 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: hostile terrorist harboring country. That's a problem. Next is the 158 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show on a Wonderful Monday. Remember you can 159 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: email us Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com, continuing our 160 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: history of the Rhodesian Bush War. Previously it had just 161 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: been Zambia with these different gorilla groups. And always remember 162 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: there are two different gorilla groups, two different Zapu and Zanu. 163 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: One group is back by the Soviets, the other group 164 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:06,719 Speaker 1: is backed by the Chinese. And remember they do not 165 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: like each other because each group essentially comes from one 166 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 1: of the two tribes that had originally been on Rhodesia, 167 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: killing each other and slaving each other, slaughtering each other. 168 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: These two different Kami groups do not get along. But 169 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: no big deal, it's just Zambia, right, We've got Zambia covered. 170 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: Then Mozambique falls in nineteen seventy four, the Portuguese pull 171 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 1: out of it. Apparently they were quite salty about it 172 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: as well. They did things like fill up the toilets 173 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: with concrete. It was essentially exactly what it sounds like. Hey, 174 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: I guess you don't like civilization. I guess we'll destroy 175 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: the civilization we created for you. I'm sure you'll be 176 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 1: able to recreate it, right, see you guys. And yeah, 177 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: Mozambique didn't do very well. Mozambique, like I said, though 178 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: it essentially is sixty seventy percent of Rhodesia's border, their 179 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: small force previously could handle a tiny border, essentially running 180 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: border patrol. Now what do you do? The terrorists immediately 181 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:25,680 Speaker 1: began setting up big camps in Mozambique, and so the Rhodesians, 182 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: and they'd been doing this before. To the Rhodesians start 183 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 1: figuring out they have to play offense, not just defense. 184 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: You see, they had camps set up all over the country, 185 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 1: military camps set up all over Rhodesia so they could 186 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: do these quick reaction forces, which we will get into. 187 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: But that's just trying to, you know, stop the leaks. 188 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: When you find them coming in. You've got to go 189 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 1: find these people in their countries, and they begin they 190 00:12:54,760 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 1: will launch obviously unauthorized, massive military actions into Zambia. Into Mozambique, 191 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: trying to blow up these training camps, trying to blow 192 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 1: up the supply lines, trying to do whatever they can 193 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: do to kill the gorillas before they come into Rhodesia, 194 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,719 Speaker 1: to deprive them of arms, to do whatever they have 195 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: to do. For instance, it's a great example of it. 196 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: And we're about to go over some operations here, which 197 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: I'll get to in a moment. But for instance, I 198 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: mentioned there's a port in Mozambique, and I also mentioned 199 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 1: the Russians, the Chinese. They were involved in this, deeply 200 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: involved because they wanted to control Rhodesia after it fell. 201 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: So how are those weapons getting there into Africa? Lots 202 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: of them are coming by ship. The Rhodesians identified the 203 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: port where the weapons were coming in through Mozambique. To 204 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: the Mozambique port is freaking brilliant. In this port, they 205 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: had a problem. You see the port it was it 206 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: was a where the river met the ocean. And I 207 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: don't want to get too technical with this kind of stuff, 208 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: but essentially, dirt, I'll just call it. Dirt starts to 209 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: pile up at the bottom of the river, at the 210 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: bottom of the port, and the port isn't deep enough 211 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 1: if that happens to allow a huge ship to come in. 212 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: So what they had was a boat that would dredge 213 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: the bottom. It would clean out the dirt. It would 214 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: clean out the dirt, and this is something you had 215 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: to do often. The Rhodesians were just unbelievably good at 216 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: these kind of super secret Ninja special Forces type missions. 217 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: They got scuba divers into the port and they nuked 218 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,520 Speaker 1: the boat that dredged the river. The boat dead in 219 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: the water. Now the river cannot be dredged. The bottom 220 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: of it raises up so much. The port is dead. 221 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: They can't get any more Chinese munitions into the port. 222 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. They figure out that they're going 223 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: to take their guns along this train. You know what 224 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: we will do. We'll wait until the train is about 225 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: to cross a massive train bridge. I mean picture it, 226 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: you can picture it in your mind, over a canyon. 227 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: They wait until the train is basically entering the bridge, 228 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: and they nuke the bridge so the train doesn't have 229 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: time to stop. The train, yes, it does have some 230 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: civilians on there, but it also has tons of munitions 231 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: that we're going to be used to kill Rhodesians. The 232 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 1: train cannot stop. The bridge blows up, oh all the 233 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: way down to the bottom of the canyon, and the 234 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: train goes. And then to pour salt in the wounds. 235 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 1: The Rhodesians go down to the bottom of the canyon 236 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: and steal all the guns and munitions, so they have that. 237 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 1: And remember, in case you're wondering why with the fall 238 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: of Moses Mbique, Rhodesia now has one friend. It's South Africa, 239 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: that friend that's down there. But you know, from six 240 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: o'clock to eight o'clock South Africa. Remember that the UN 241 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: because of Britain, they have these crippling sanctions on Rhodesia. 242 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: Now they're having a hard time economically because Mozambique's gone. 243 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: They're having a hard time getting stuff in munitions, things 244 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: like that. They can't get stuff. They are landlocked. They 245 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: are completely dependent on South Africa. Without them, they have 246 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: nobody in South Africa. It's helping, don't get me wrong, 247 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: but they can't do that much. So we'll talk about 248 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: a couple other operations. One it was a revenge operation. 249 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: Revenge for what. Well, you know how communists can't control themselves. 250 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: They have never been able to control their demonic impulses. 251 00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: Probably not a good idea to hand them anti aircraft 252 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: to missiles where civilian airliners fly. Hang on, it is 253 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic, fantastic Monday. Back 254 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 1: to our Rhodesian bush war. So I don't want to 255 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: get too in the weeds on the details, but there 256 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: is something that kind of matters for our purposes here. 257 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: Remember I said that Zambia is that country to the 258 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 1: northwest of Rhodesia. Mozambique is the country that it's essentially 259 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: their entire eastern border. The Soviet backed gorilla groups were 260 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: really Zambia right in Mozambique. Those gorilla groups, that gorilla group, 261 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: they were backed by the Chinese, and they had two 262 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: different types of war. They were trying to fight the Chinese. 263 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: It's almost it's almost too on the nose. The Chinese 264 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:58,959 Speaker 1: were more focused on being subversive, being quieter about it, 265 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: less technologically but more spy stuff. Does that make sense. 266 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,720 Speaker 1: The Soviets, they had tanks. They wanted their gorillas to 267 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:15,560 Speaker 1: be outfitted with heavy equipment, and one of the things 268 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: they gave them was surface to air missiles. Remember the 269 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: gorilla groups, neither of them had air power at all. 270 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: A huge advantage the Rhodesians had was they had excellent 271 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: helicopter pilots, excellent fighter pilots. That they had air power 272 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: the gorillas did not seems like an easy problem to solve. 273 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: The Soviets said to their gorillas up in Zambia, Hey, 274 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: how about some weapons that can shoot down a plane? 275 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: But communists cannot control themselves. There is a passenger airline, 276 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: a passenger airline flies in the wrong place, and the 277 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 1: Kami gorillas shooting down. Now it doesn't get blown up 278 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: completely in the sky. Yes, of course, the explosion hurts 279 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: and kills people. The crash landing hurts and kills people. 280 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: But there are several survivors on the ground. Okay, sounds good, right, Well, 281 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: some of those survivors managed to crawl away from the 282 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: wreckage get somewhere where there's essentially some place to hide. 283 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: Others are too tired, sick, or injured to do so. 284 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: The ones who crawl their way into the bush and 285 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: find a place to hide, they were the living witnesses 286 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 1: of what happened next. The Calmie Monster guerrilla groups that 287 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: shot down the passenger airliner drove up to the crashed 288 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: plane and promptly executed all of the survivors. The word 289 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: would have never gotten out had there not been living 290 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: survivors out. Obviously word got to Rhodesia. In Rhodesia is furious. Now, 291 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: up to this point, they had not really done cross 292 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: border things. Right now they're going in cross border things 293 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,640 Speaker 1: like the ship thing and the bridge thing. They hadn't 294 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: really done that yet. Now they go in and it's 295 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: called Operation Gatling, where they attack three different gorilla camps 296 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: in Zambia over the course of three days. It's almost 297 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: a simultaneous attack. Helicopters, planes, troops. Now I need to 298 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: clarify something about the troops because it's such a large 299 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: country and there were so few troops. The Rhodesian troops 300 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: were basically all of them airborne troops in some way. 301 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: They were always parachuting into a place or getting out 302 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: of a helicopter. It was the norm. You could hardly drive. 303 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,439 Speaker 1: I mean there was driving, don't get me wrong. But 304 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: when they launched operations, they were always from the air. 305 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 1: Air operations. So they do a huge cross border attack 306 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: into Zambia. Now, what do communists do? What do communists do? Today? 307 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: And always when they get attacked. When they do something 308 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: terrible and they get attacked, they play the victim. The communists. 309 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,160 Speaker 1: After this three day affair, the Communists came out and said, hey, 310 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: you killed a bunch of innocent civilians. Rhodesia killed a 311 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: bunch of innocent civilians. Now I know you're probably rolling 312 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: your eyes and saying that's ridiculous, and of course it is, 313 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: except who runs the media today, communists. Who do you 314 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: think was running it back in the seventies, communists. You 315 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 1: know that communist governments around the globe, including in Western civilization, 316 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,439 Speaker 1: they hated Rhodesia, hated it. They were trying to get 317 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:55,719 Speaker 1: the place to stop. What I'm saying is the media, 318 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: the governments, they were all too willing to believe the 319 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: communists propaganda that civilians were killed and mass in the 320 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: Rhodesians looked terrible. Now, I need to explain something before 321 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: we get into other things like torture and other operations 322 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Fire force really cool name, I know, 323 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: but fire force is something the Rhodesians did and here's 324 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: what it was. Because of the size of the country 325 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,560 Speaker 1: has already mentioned, because of how many troops they had, 326 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: how do you get everywhere when you find out there's 327 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: been an infiltration of gorillas. When they find fifty gorillas, 328 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 1: one hundred gorillas, they set up I'll call them army 329 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: camps all over the country. All over the country. There 330 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: would be I'll just pick a number. It's going to vary, 331 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: but one hundred troops in one camp. Helicopters are there, 332 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: planes are there. Now. I mentioned before the group known 333 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: as the Cellus Scouts. It's really Sellou Scouts. It's a 334 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,639 Speaker 1: French term, but I'm just gonna call them the Cellus 335 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: Scouts is that's what most people know them as. The 336 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,959 Speaker 1: Sellas Scouts were this elite unit where they tracked people. 337 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: It's what they did. They hunted down gorillas and tracked them. Also, 338 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: kind of a cool little tidbit. Did you know that 339 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: more than half of the Sellas Scouts were Black Africans 340 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: who were communists before and they recruited them and turned 341 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: them and now they fought for the cell With Scouts. 342 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,840 Speaker 1: How about that? Really cool? Anyway they would do, they 343 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: did all kinds of things. They would pose as warlords 344 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: and things like that. They would do all kinds of things. 345 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: But their job essentially was to go find these gorilla 346 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: in incursions into the country. And let's say they're out 347 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: and they find one get they find a large group 348 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: of tracks, they find trash, they find something, they track it, 349 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: and they find fifty gorillas, fifty gorillas who are having 350 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: lunch in a riverbed. They get on the radio. This 351 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 1: is what fireforce was. They get on the radio and 352 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,879 Speaker 1: the closest camp of the Rhodesian military, the closest camp 353 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,360 Speaker 1: would mobilize, boom troops. Everybody, get in the helos, get 354 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,400 Speaker 1: in the planes. And the idea of it was this 355 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: get to where the gorillas are quickly. And more importantly, 356 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: they were trying to envelop the gorillas. Why envelop the gorillas, Well, 357 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: the gorillas had a strategy they used. Remember it's easy 358 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: to think about these guys as unsophisticated. They had all 359 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 1: kinds of training from the Soviets and the Chinese advanced 360 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: military training. What the gorillas would do when they were caught, 361 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,919 Speaker 1: they would disperse. Everybody would kind of go in a 362 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 1: different direction, and then they would know, I need to 363 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: get back across the border. Once I get back across 364 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: the border will reconvene and we'll be fine. The Rhodesians 365 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: know this is what they do too. So the idea 366 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: of fire force is mobilize the helos, mobilize the planes, 367 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,399 Speaker 1: mobilize it all. Mobilize the troops so fast that you 368 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,879 Speaker 1: envelop them so they can't get out. You try to 369 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 1: trap them and kill them all, trap them and kill 370 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: them all. By the end of the war, which we're 371 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: not going to get to yet, but by the end 372 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: of the war, the Rhodesian troops were basically worn down 373 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: to the nubs because they would go on two, three, 374 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: four fire force missions a day. Don't think you would 375 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: get on the helo and go out and kill fifty 376 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 1: gorillas and then it's time for a beer at the 377 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: local officer club. No no, no, no, no, no, you went 378 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: right back to base. Maybe went back to base. Maybe 379 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: you went right from one fire force mission to another 380 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: fire force mission, all over the country, flying, killing, dying 381 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: all day long, flying killing, dying all day long. That 382 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: was fire force, essentially a quick reaction force that allowed 383 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:52,639 Speaker 1: this admittedly wonderful Rhodesian infantry or military in general, to 384 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: quickly get to where the gorillas are and kill them. 385 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: And that's a good thing, because the Kamis are now 386 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: getting in more and more and more because that friggin 387 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: border with Mozambique is now open for them. The Rhodesians 388 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: have to start taking other measures, if you will. It 389 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,720 Speaker 1: is that Jesse Kelly's show, trying to get through part 390 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: four of the Rhodesian bush War. I'm not gonna be 391 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: able to wrap it up tonight. I will wrap it 392 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: up tomorrow. I don't even think it'll take me an hour. 393 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: I could look, I could continue to go on and 394 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: on and on. I know it's a fascinating thing, but 395 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: we'll get back to politics here in ten minutes. Remember, 396 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: you can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 397 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: So it really is so impressive to me as I 398 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: read through it. How advanced in the thinking the Rhodesian 399 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: military and they're essentially their spy agency. Was I told 400 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: you they now realized they had to cross borders and 401 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,600 Speaker 1: attack the gorillas in their camps in other countries before 402 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: they got into Rhodesia. You had to do something to 403 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: kill them in their countries, and so they come up 404 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: with something called Operation Dingo. Now it would have been 405 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: quite an ugly affair to watch it, but still so 406 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: impressive here was Operation in Dingo. Here was the idea 407 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: behind it. Two gigantic terrorist bases. That's what they called 408 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: them terrorists, and essentially that's what they were. And remember 409 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: these terrorists are setting land mines on Rhodesian roads, butchering 410 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: farmers whenever they find them. They really didn't. They used 411 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: terror tactics, bombing things. They're just they were terrorists. Operation 412 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: Dingo identifies two large gorilla bases. Here's what they start doing. 413 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: They start taking Rhodesian planes jets their military planes, and 414 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: flying overhead of the bases, over over top of the bases. 415 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 1: Why they wanted the terrorists, They wanted them to get 416 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: used to the sound of Rhodesian jets flying overhead. You know, 417 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: at first, when you first fly overhead, the terrorists think 418 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,160 Speaker 1: they're about to be bombed or something like that said, 419 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: they run and they hide and they get into bunkers. 420 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: But then you do it enough times, the terrorists start 421 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,439 Speaker 1: to figure out, wait a minute, nothing bad's going to happen. 422 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: I don't need to pay attention to the Rhodesian jets 423 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: flying overhead. I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. Operation 424 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: Dingo was this. They loaded up all these troops onto 425 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: planes with parachutes. Then, as per usual, they flew some 426 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: of their jets over the bases. The gorillas, you know, 427 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: they're gonna look up, but by now they realize they'll 428 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: be fine. The Rhodesians knew when the troops would gather 429 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: for formation on their base. They waited until the troops 430 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,680 Speaker 1: were at formation. Essentially you're standing out in the open, 431 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: and then they start dropping huge bombs on them, in 432 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: incinerating them, napalm, you name it. Apparently there were body 433 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: parts all over the place of these communists terrorists because 434 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: the Rhodesians caught them in formation. And as soon as 435 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: or basically as the planes are dropping bombs on the 436 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 1: Kami terrorists, the Rhodesian troops are jumping out of planes 437 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: with their parachutes and parachuting down. As the Kami guerrillas 438 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: are firing up at them with AK forty sevens, putting 439 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: holes in their parachutes. The Rhodesian troops land. And this 440 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: is where I'll get very frank with you. This war 441 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 1: was fought in a way that may make you squeamish, 442 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: uncomfortable both sides, and it was a war that was 443 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: barbaric because it had to be the Rhodesian troops couldn't 444 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: afford to take prisoners aid the wounded. No, no, no, They 445 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: walked around killing all of them. And they had identified 446 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: the likely escape routes the gorillas would use, and they 447 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 1: set up a hidden blocking force. So as the gorillas 448 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: are fleeing the base, they get mowed down as they 449 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: run right into the Rhodesian guns. The Rhodesians are walking 450 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: around shooting gorillas in the head as they're burning to death. 451 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: It is a horrible, horrible, ugly affair that was awesome, 452 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: an incredible military campaign and a huge success. But this 453 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: is where I'll leave you for today, because tomorrow I 454 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: set Operation Dingo's one of the coolest operations ever. It's 455 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,160 Speaker 1: probably the one we will go into tomorrow, to be 456 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: honest with you. But I'll leave you with this now 457 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,520 Speaker 1: and forever. What I'm about to say has been the case. 458 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: Wars are not just military things. There is always a 459 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: political aspect to every single war. Always, Alexander the Great, 460 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: as he's out there conquering the Persian Empire, is constantly 461 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 1: having to deal with politics and political intrigue back home, 462 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 1: Julius sees you name it. There's always a political aspect 463 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: to every war. We like to imagine there was a 464 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: time when it was just two armies squaring off like men, 465 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: and we didn't have these pesky politicians. It's never been 466 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: that way. Rhodesia was always doomed because the world was 467 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: against them politically, and by doing the military things they 468 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: had to do to win, they were actually increasing the 469 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: public opposition to them. I find Operation Dingo to be 470 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: an insanely impressive military campaign. The public did not Now 471 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,959 Speaker 1: it was in Rhodesia, Don't get me wrong, they were 472 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: quite happy about it in Rhodesia, but globally, America, the UK, 473 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: it was essentially sold as a mass slaughter of civilians. 474 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: They claimed there were all kinds of refugees in the 475 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:29,200 Speaker 1: camp who had been killed and executed. Internationally, this huge 476 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:35,480 Speaker 1: military success didn't land well. And now we're at the 477 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: place in Rhodesia. Now we're in the seventies, the late seventies. 478 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: They can't hold back the tide anymore. Of gorillas. They've 479 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: even put land mines along the Mozambique border, all kinds 480 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: of land mines the Rhodesians have. But it was such mountainous, 481 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: rough terrain you couldn't possibly mind all of it. They're 482 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: finding a way to get through. They are now regularly 483 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: setting up camps. They are the Rhodesians are having to 484 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: take steps I just mentioned politically, That's why I brought 485 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: this up. Steps like remember those African tribal peoples who 486 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: are still there. The Rhodesians are pulling them out of 487 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: the reservations, the villages they'd put them in, and said no, 488 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: you can't stay there anymore. Now you have to come 489 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: into the city because they can't have them being recruited 490 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,479 Speaker 1: by the communist terrorists who are coming in. It's a nightmare, 491 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: a total nightmare. We will finish the Rhodesian bush War 492 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: tomorrow