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OK, during the Rhodesian bush wars of the 1960s thru to 1981, their armed forces were augmented by a substantial proportion of foreign volunteers (esp Saffas & Brits, plus Americans & Aussies who'd served in Vietnam) in their key elite units such as the RLI, Selous Scouts & Rhodesian SAS. However, is there any way that there could've been more nonwhite volunteers willing to fight for Rhodesia ? Is there any way that Rhodesia, despite apartheid, could be seen as a place where blacks as well as whites could get a square deal- such that say large nos. of African-American Vietnam War vets (btw there actually was a secret CIA plan to that effect in the mid-70s to help anti-Communist forces in Angola & Mozambique against Communist guerillas) could've volunteered to fight as members of the Rhodesian African Rifles & other black Rhodesian security units (which by 1978 constituted 70% of Rhodesia's security forces) ? How would Rhodesia' international image have been better off if nonwhites as well as whites had been willing to fight against Communist forces during these bush wars ?
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