Book Review: Death Flight by Michael Schmidt


This book is the product of research uncovering of some of South Africa's darkest secrets during the last years of Apartheid. The revealing expose, was, seemingly, overlooked at the time by the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions' (TRC) investigators.  It reiterates the now clearly obvious belief that civil wars, political insurgencies and mass civil disobedience spawn the most grotesque and inhumane crimes on either side of the fray. South Africa was no exception.

Book Review: Battle for Hurungwe


This title is another in the line of books written by former servicemen who had served their country during the Rhodesian Bush War, or the Liberation Struggle depending on your perspectives.  Author, John Padbury, a former member of the Rhodesian Special Branch, and later a BSA Police Reservist designated to run an experimental Security Force Auxiliary (SFA) operation in the Hurungwe, which came just a little too late.

Changing the Guard: Cabo Delgado


by Andrew Field With the recent cessation of the rainy season in northern Mozambique, the province of Cabo Delgado, remains under a dark and sinister cloud.   In the last week of March 2021, insurgent forces, of the Ansar al-Sunna, an heretic, Islamic fundamentalist group, launched an attack on Palma and small town on the northern … Continue reading Changing the Guard: Cabo Delgado