Mercenaries - Scourge of the Developing World (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	1999
Authors:	Guy Arnold
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	198
Edition:	1999 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-22203-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
LSN:	0-312-22203-3
Barcode:	9780312222031

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