Mercenaries : Scourge of the Developing World Hardback
by Guy Arnold
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Mercenaries have been employed as auxiliaries since early times, but in the post-1945 world they have operated, almost exclusively, in weak Third World countries.
From Columbia to the Congo, Angola to Papua New Guinea, Cambodia to Nicaragua, they have appeared: training the drug cartel armies, assisting rebellions or civil wars, acting as the agents of the major powers.
In the Congo crisis (1960-1965) they earned an especially unsavory reputation for greed, brutality and racism; it is a reputation that has stuck to the mercenary and on the whole justly.
During the 1990s a new phenomenon has emerged in the form of the mercenary corporations such as Executive Outcomes or Sandline.
These corporations offer a range of military expertise and weaponry, have the covert support of governments in the countries from which they come and are rapidly becoming a power to themselves, ultimately far more dangerous than the individual freebooters of the past.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:198 pages, XIII, 198 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:25/11/1999
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- ISBN:9780312222031
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:198 pages, XIII, 198 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:25/11/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780312222031
