Bandit Mentality Lindsay Obrien by Lindsay O’brien 9781911512028, 1911512021 instant download after payment.

Bandit Mentality captures Lindsay ‘Kiwi’ O’Brien’s Bush War service from
1976-1980 at the coalface of the Rhodesian conflict. Starting in the BSA
Police Support Unit – the police force’s professional anti-terrorist battalion –
he served across the country as a section leader and a troop commander before
joining the UANC’s political armies as a trainer and advisor.
Much has been written about the army’s elite units, but Support Unit’s war
record was mainly unknown during the conflict and has faded into obscurity
afterwards. Support Unit started poorly supplied and equipped, but the caliber
of the men – mostly African – was second to none. Support Unit specialized
in the ‘grunt’ work inside Rhodesia, with none of the flamboyant helicopter or
cross-border raids carried out by the army. O’Brien’s war was primarily within
selected tribal lands – seeking out and destroying terrorist units in brisk, close-
range battles with little to no support.
O’Brien moved from the police to working with the initial UANC
deployment in the Zambezi Valley, where the poorly trained recruits were
delivered into the terrorist lair; they had to learn fast or die. His account is a
foreign-born perspective from a junior commander uninterested in promotion
and the wrangling of Upper Command. O’Brien was decorated and wounded
three times.