Mercenaries: Scourge of the Developing World

di Guy Arnold (Autore)

Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

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.

• Autore: Guy Arnold
• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 198 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9780333733875

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