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Mercenaries: Scourge of the Developing World Hardback - 1999

by Guy Arnold

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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.

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  • Title Mercenaries: Scourge of the Developing World
  • Author Guy Arnold
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st U.K. edition
  • Pages 198
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, London
  • Publication date 1999-11-25
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780312222031 / 0312222033
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.2 x 0.77 in (23.93 x 15.75 x 1.96 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Developing World
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Mercenary troops - Developing countries
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99-18562
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.354

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Guy Arnold is a freelance writer who lives in England.
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