Chief Historian of the Marine Corps, Charles D. Melson’s Fighting for Time: Rhodesia’s Military and Zimbabwe Independence is an insider look at an important historical moment. Melson examines the transition of the Rhodesian armed services from a general-purpose force to a special operations force conducting intelligence-driven operations, and identifies the lessons that can be learned from the study of this low-intensity conflict at the level of “tactics, techniques, and procedures.” Melson offers a detailed examination of the military response to the emerging revolutionary threat, and the evolution of general and special-purpose units.