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For more on Heinz and US Foreign policy objectives see Sy Hersh and Anthony Bourdain on Kissinger 14 June 2019 and Kissinger's Diplomacy in Rhodesia.

What scares me about war is not the bullets, or what they do to, but the fear of fighting an invisible enemy. I got that from watching a Vietnam War movie at a friend's house when I was about 8 years old in Mill [Gboard said "Mexico lol] Park, PE. That would have been around 1974, ...

Nick Downey - Front Line Rhodesia


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Here's one of the more famous flims [sic!] made during the Rhodesian Bush War.  Frontline Rhodesia following Rhodesian African Rifles Troopers as they conduct Fireforce Operations against Terrorist Insurgents amongst the Rhodesian Native African population in 1978. 
The short film was released in 1979.

In the video you can see phenomenal examples of Rhodesian Brushstroke camouflage, "Baby Poop" painted Rifles and the famous "instinctive shooting" you hear that the Rhodesians trained to do.

All in all a great view into one of the more obscure Cold War proxy conflicts.

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