Mercenaries : the scourge of the Third World
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Mercenaries : the scourge of the Third World
Macmillan, 1999
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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