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• catalog abstract ""Mercenaries have been employed as auxiliaries in war since earliest times but in the post-1945 world they have operated, almost exclusively, in weak third-world countries. From Colombia 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 (1960-65) they earned an especially unsavoury reputation for greed, brutality and racialism; 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11193133.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""Mercenaries have been employed as auxiliaries in war since earliest times but in the post-1945 world they have operated, almost exclusively, in weak third-world countries. From Colombia 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 (1960-65) they earned an especially unsavoury reputation for greed, brutality and racialism; 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.".
• catalog description "1. The Congo 1960-1965 -- 2. The Nigerian Civil War -- 3. Southern Africa (1) Rhodesia -- 4. Southern Africa (2) Angola -- 5. African vulnerability -- 6. Island destabilization: Comoros, Seychelles, Denard -- 7. The British mercenary tradition: The Middle East -- 8. Papua New Guinea and Bougainville -- 9. Nicaragua and Colombia -- 10. Europe -- 11. South Africa and Executive Outcomes -- 12. The new mercenary coporations -- 13. Sierra Leone, Sandline and Britain -- 14. Western attitudes -- 15. The United Nations -- 16. Conclusions -- the future.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "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."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 198 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0312222033 (St.Martin's)".
• catalog identifier "0333733878 (MacMillan)".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Basingstoke : MacMillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press,".
• catalog spatial "Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "355.3/54 21".
• catalog subject "Mercenary troops Developing countries.".
• catalog subject "U42 .A78 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Congo 1960-1965 -- 2. The Nigerian Civil War -- 3. Southern Africa (1) Rhodesia -- 4. Southern Africa (2) Angola -- 5. African vulnerability -- 6. Island destabilization: Comoros, Seychelles, Denard -- 7. The British mercenary tradition: The Middle East -- 8. Papua New Guinea and Bougainville -- 9. Nicaragua and Colombia -- 10. Europe -- 11. South Africa and Executive Outcomes -- 12. The new mercenary coporations -- 13. Sierra Leone, Sandline and Britain -- 14. Western attitudes -- 15. The United Nations -- 16. Conclusions -- the future.".
• catalog title "Mercenaries : the scourge of the Third World / Guy Arnold.".
• catalog type "text".