ISRAELI CARRY • HISTORY OF SELOUS SCOUTS • FLYING ARMED • SECURITY CONSEQUENCES Journal for Law Enforcement, Intelligence & Special Operations Professionals FEBRUARY/MARCH 2016 VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 1 SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EXPLOITATION OF EVENTS INTERNATIONAL EDITION An SSI ® Publication FEBRUARY/MARCH 2016 thecounterterroristmag.com USA/CANADA $5.99 LEGEND REFINED m 1 07a1 Battle Proven. Lighter Than Ever. Enhanced Precision. SUPPRESSOR CAPABLE .50 BMG Barrett will not sell to government agencies in the State of California or New York. 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VOLUME 9 • NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2016 by Garret Machine Editor Garret Machine Director of Operations Carmen Arnaes Director of Advertizing hould a terrorist be given the same civil rights and due process of law that a Sol Bradman criminal would have? Every society is plagued with crime, but only some are Administrative S Ashley Villegas plagued with terrorism. If a perpetrator is actively engaging in violent deadly behavior, Contributing Editors does it matter what their ideology is? No, in the moment it makes no difference. Can a Dr. Clairissa D. Breen first responder to an active shooter know in that moment the motivation of the shooter Lieutenant Colonel Ron Reid-Daly Ken Pagano and will they have enough information in that moment to decide the appropriate level John Gomez of force? In real time, no they will not. Joseph J. Kolb We need to make a shift in our way of thinking and it can only come from the top Graphic Design Morrison Creative Company down. 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Tell us how CTS Less Lethal products have helped you accomplish your mission: @COMBINEDSYSTEMSINC @COMBINEDSYSINC [email protected] WWW.COMBINEDSYSTEMS.COM Circle 93 on Reader Service Card The Counter Terrorist ~ February/March 2016 7 HISTORY OF THE SELOUS SCOUTS 8 The Counter Terrorist ~ February/March 2016 by Lieutenant Colonel Ron Reid-Daly CLM, DMM, MBE, Selous Scouts The first serious terrorist incursions into Rhodesia took place during 1967/68. In the military operations which were swiftly mounted by the Rhodesian security forces when these incursions were detected, the terrorist forces were annihilated almost to a man. urvivors of these actions who they did with considerable efficiency. Rhodesia, using FRELIMO infrastructure managed to re-cross the Zambezi The terrorist hierarchy became aware as base areas. Intelligence, that vital SRiver and return to their bases sat down that they had ignored the major tenet ingredient in insurgent warfare, dried up, with their leaders to find out what had of Mao Tse-tung: if the guerrilla is to leaving the Rhodesian forces baffled and gone wrong so that they could revise their enjoy any measure of success, he must dispirited because they could not get to strategy and tactics. have the support of the people who will grips with their enemy. They realized that their first mistake feed him, hide him, guide him, and act Fortunately for the Rhodesians, at this had been to enter the uninhabited game as his eyes and ears against the security time a small experimental “pseudogroup” areas of the Zambezi Valley, which forces. Having grasped this fundamental had commenced operations. This group, the Rhodesian security forces knew truth, the terrorist forces set to work on modeled on the pseudo-gangs that had like the backs of their hands. For the implementing this strategy. been used in the Mau Mau campaign Rhodesian forces it was simply a matter The first fruits of their success came in Kenya, set out to make connections of finding their tracks, following them, about in December 1972, when the with the real terrorists with the aim of and neutralizing the terrorists when terrorists opened up a new campaign initiating a contact. This new dimension they were brought to contact. This in the northeastern border areas of in the Rhodesian Bush War was an The Counter Terrorist ~ February/March 2016 9 …68% of terrorist kills in the internal operational areas were officially credited to Selous Scouts operations. Operational areas of the Rhodesian Security Forces during the Bush War in the 1970s. Photo by: Cliftonian immediate success and produced a major breakthrough in the means of acquiring of hot, accurate intelligence. Plans were immediately initiated to create a new unit to specialize in pseudo-operations, and the Selous Scouts were born. Volunteers from all units in the Rhodesian Army were called for, a selection and training course was decided on, and in January 1974 the first Selous Scouts troop deployed into the operational area. The second and third troops followed and by the end of March 1974 the Selous Scouts had the capability of deploying three troops into the field. The impact of these men in their operational areas was immediate and A Rhodesian soldier questioning villagers near the border of Botswana in the fall of 1977. Photo by: J. Ross Baughman electrifying. The Fire Force concept was initiated, and with the Selous Scouts locating terrorist targets for the Fire Force to neutralize, the kill rate rose to an all-time high. The morale of the security forces, which had taken a definite dip as a result of the terrorists changing 10 The Counter Terrorist ~ February/March 2016 The Counter Terrorist ~ February/March 2016 11 Circle 262 on Reader Service Card their tactics, rose with the kill rate. The group of black and white scouts was Rhodesia is no more and has joined the impact of the Selous Scouts on the war formed to pinpoint external terrorist pages of history.