{"id":74753,"date":"2024-05-22T05:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=74753"},"modified":"2024-05-22T05:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:22:15","slug":"know-your-military-history-1978-battle-of-kolwezi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/know-your-military-history-1978-battle-of-kolwezi\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Military History: 1978 Battle of Kolwezi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74754 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Zaire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Zaire.jpg 450w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Zaire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignlegion.info\/battle-of-kolwezi\/\">1978 Battle of Kolwezi<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2>The\u00a0<strong>Battle of Kolwezi<\/strong>\u00a0(also known as\u00a0<em>Operation Bonite<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>Operation Leopard<\/em>) was a successful airborne operation carried out in May 1978, by the\u00a0<strong>2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment<\/strong>\u00a0(2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion. It took place in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa.<\/h2>\n<h2><strong><em>The operation\u2019s task was to rescue over\u00a02,000 European hostages\u00a0captured by local left-wing rebels. Because of the successful operation and its international media coverage, the 2e REP gained popularity across the world.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/White-guilt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/White-guilt.jpg 582w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/White-guilt-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1978 Battle of Kolwezi The\u00a0Battle of Kolwezi\u00a0(also known as\u00a0Operation Bonite\u00a0or\u00a0Operation Leopard) was a successful airborne operation carried out in May 1978, by the\u00a02nd Foreign Parachute Regiment\u00a0(2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion. It took place in what was then Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Central Africa. The operation\u2019s task was to rescue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2711,16133,475,1286],"tags":[15948,17428,8007,763],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74755,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74753\/revisions\/74755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}