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Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army

Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) was the military wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), a militant African nationalist organisation that participated in the Rhodesian Bush War against white minority rule of Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe).

Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army

1965 (1965)–1980 (1980)

ZANU

African nationalism
African socialism
Pan-Africanism

Far-left

Dissolved

25,500 (1979)[1]

State allies:

Non-state allies:

State opponents:

Non-state opponents:

Rhodesian Bush War

ZANLA drew its recruits mostly from ethnic groups.

Shona-speaking

ZANLA followed a strategy of politicisation of the peasant population (inspired by the Maoist teachings of "").

people's war

After about 1972, ZANLA introduced combatants into the country for long-term campaigns of guerrilla fighting, while ZIPRA was designed to be used as a conventional armed force: entering the country, striking and pulling back to its bases in Zambia and .

Angola

Rubert, Steven (2001). Historical dictionary of Zimbabwe. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press.  9780810834712.

ISBN

Kriger, Norma J. (2003). Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.  9780521537704.

ISBN

Preston, Matthew (September 2004). Ending civil war: Rhodesia and Lebanon in perspective. London: . ISBN 978-1-85043-579-2.

I.B. Tauris