Next morning all 15 of the U.N.’s jets—Indian Canberras, Swedish Saabs and Ethiopian Sabres—were off in search of Katanga’s meager air force.

The mineral-rich southeastern province of Katanga in preindependence days supplied 60% of the revenue of the Congo government and most of the wealth the Belgians drew from the colony.

D.R. Tharp reached out to me a while back regarding a book he was working on, Task Force Intrepid: The Gold of Katanga. As it turned out, we both write military fiction and we were both ...

South Africa is believed to have around 3,000 troops deployed in Congo, both as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission and a Southern African regional force tasked with helping Congo's army combat ...