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Mercenaries

Scourge of the Developing World

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Congo 1960–1965

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Nigerian Civil War

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 18-25

  4. Southern Africa (1) Rhodesia

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 26-32

  5. Southern Africa (2) Angola

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 33-45

  6. African Vulnerability

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 46-55

  7. Island destabilization: Comoros, Seychelles, Denard

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 56-64

  8. The British mercenary tradition: The Middle East

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 65-73

  9. Papua New Guinea and Bougainville

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 74-85

  10. Nicaragua and Colombia

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 86-100

  11. Europe

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 101-112

  12. South Africa and Executive Outcomes

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 113-122

  13. The new mercenary corporations

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 123-131

  14. Sierra Leone, Sandline and Britain

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 132-146

  15. Western attitudes

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 147-158

  16. The United Nations

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 159-168

  17. Conclusions — the future

    • Guy Arnold
    Pages 169-174

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 175-198
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About this book

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.

About the author

Guy Arnold is a freelance writer who lives in England.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mercenaries

  • Book Subtitle: Scourge of the Developing World

  • Authors: Guy Arnold

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27708-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22203-1Published: 25 November 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-27708-7Published: 26 November 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 198

  • Topics: History of Military

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