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Mercenaries

Scourge of the Developing World

By: Guy Arnold

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Hardcover | 24 August 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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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Preface
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
The Congo 1960-1965	p. 1
The Nigerian Civil War	p. 18
Southern Africa (1) Rhodesia	p. 26
Southern Africa (2) Angola	p. 33
African vulnerability	p. 46
Island destabilization: Comoros, Seychelles, Denard	p. 56
The British mercenary tradition: The Middle East	p. 65
Papua New Guinea and Bougainville	p. 74
Nicaragua and Colombia	p. 86
Europe	p. 101
South Africa and Executive Outcomes	p. 113
The new mercenary coporations	p. 123
Sierra Leone, Sandline and Britain	p. 132
Western attitudes	p. 147
The United Nations	p. 159
Conclusions - the future	p. 169
Notes	p. 175
Appendix	p. 181
Index	p. 190
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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