Rhodesian Bush War (Lion Country)

The Rhodesian Bush War was a drawn out civil war beginning in 1963, with Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, and ending in 1992, a year after the collapse of communism and culminating in a peace treaty following the Battle of Kariba Dam.

It was a three way conflict fought between the Rhodesian Security Forces (RSF), the Zimbabwe-Africa Liberation Front (ZALF) and the Revolutionary African Peoples Party (RAPP). Despite holding losely aligned interests, ZALF and RAPP often fought one another, as well as the RSF.