Operation Nickel

Operation Nickel ko Wankie Campaign' ko Wankie Battles wani aikin soji ne da Rundunar Tsaro ta Rhodesian ta kaddamar a ranar 1 ga Agusta shekara ta 1967 don mayar da martani ga rukunin ZIPRA da Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) mayaka da ke tsallaka kogin Zambezi, wanda ke nuna iyakar Rhodesian da Zambia. Aikin ya yi nasara tare da daya daga cikin jami'an tsaro daga cikin sojoji saba'in da tara wanda ya mayar da shi Zambia.

Takaittacen Bayani

RLI ya ci gaba da girma cikin ƙarfi a lokacin ƙarshen shekarar 1966 da farkon shekarar 1967; ta fara yin gwajin parachute ne a farkon wannan shekarar, inda ta karbo kayan aiki daga SAS don yin hakan. An maye gurbin bango a matsayin CO a ranar 18 ga Yuni shekara ta 1967 ta Laftanar-Kanar Jack Caine, wanda tsohon na Burtaniya [[Coldstream Guards] ne.

Aikin Operation

Kutsen na gaba ya zo ne a ranar 1 ga Agustan shekara ta 1967, lokacin da aka haɗu da sojojin 79 ZIPRA da Afirka ta Kudu [Umkhonto we Sizwe]]' (MK) mayakan {{#tag:ref|Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation" a cikin Xhosa da Zulu) shi ne reshen soja na African National Congress (ANC) na Afirka ta Kudu kuma ana kiransa da shi a takaice a matsayin "MK". Mataimakin shugaban jam'iyyar ANC Oliver Tambo da James Chikerema, mataimakin shugaban jam'iyyar ZAPU ne suka sanar da kawancen soji tsakanin MK da ZIPRA a ranar 19 ga Agustan shekara ta 1967.