What if Britain had made clear it would use force against Southern Rhodesia if UDI were declared, or just after it was?
Part of me thinks this may be ASB because I cannot imagine the political will for it to happen, but given Wilson specifically ruled out “a lightning bolt from the sky, in the form of the Royal Air Force” it must have been given some consideration.
Was the power projection capacity for a strike hard enough to make a difference available? What form would it have taken and what would have happened next?
Part of me thinks this may be ASB because I cannot imagine the political will for it to happen, but given Wilson specifically ruled out “a lightning bolt from the sky, in the form of the Royal Air Force” it must have been given some consideration.
Was the power projection capacity for a strike hard enough to make a difference available? What form would it have taken and what would have happened next?