Reddit reviews Fireforce: One Man’s War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Fireforce by Chris Cocks is a good read.
The usual academic answer is from various archives and military academies. Pay your dues and do the necessary legwork for research.
But I personally find that answer very behind the times. The Internet may not have a central repository for military articles, but it doesn’t need to have one thanks to Google especially if you understand how to properly tune your search results.
For instance, when searching about the Rhodesian Bush war, I simply added the search term “PDF” into the query and got this as my first result:
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/ArtOfWar_RhodesianAfricanRifles.pdf
Which is a 130 page overview of the RAR that you can get for free, and it provides a basic overview of the conflict even if the RaR is not your focus.
More importantly, these long article will usually include a very long bibliography which you can then search for something more specific to your interests, like this citation:
Cox, Chris. Fireforce: One Man’s War in the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Johannesburg: 30 Degrees South, 2006.
Which you can then try to find copies of, perhaps by purchasing an ebook from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Fireforce-Mans-Rhodesian-Light-Infantry/dp/0958489092
(Though in this case it seems only the paper version is available).
I would caution though that most military history accounts are terribly one-sided (anyone claiming they are unbiased is almost certainly either deliberately or unconsciously hiding their biases) so it pays to also enter search queries about the other side, and to look at sources covering the opposition. One man’s villain is often another’s hero.
Besides “PDF”, another surprisingly fruitful additional search query term is “reddit”, especially when combined with this particular subreddit’s name “war college”. A lot of wars often have a few English language experts who show up in reddit, and they very often can give more details that a normal paper would not cover. For instance the Rhodesian light infantry was discussed in this thread here:
https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comments/4lor1x/what_are_some_examples_of_successful/
In short, it can actually be surprisingly easy to get a lot of good articles using only Google. You just need to know what other search query terms to add so you aren’t directed to the Wikipedia page.