Mercenaries : the scourge of the Third World

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Mercenaries : the scourge of the Third World

Guy Arnold

Macmillan, 1999

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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.

目次

  • The Congo 1960-1965
  • the Nigerian civil war
  • Southern Africa (1)
  • Rhodesia Southern Africa (2)
  • Angola African vulnerability
  • island destabilization - Comoros, Seychelles, Denard
  • the British mercenary tradition - the Middle East Papua New Guinea and Bougainville
  • Nicaragua and Colombia
  • Europe, South Africa and Executive Outcomes
  • the new mercenary corporations
  • Sierra Leone, Sandline and Britain
  • western attitudes
  • the United Nations.

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