Mercenaries

Name: Mercenaries
Brand: Palgrave USA
SKU: 9780312222031
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Scourge of the Developing World

Автор: Guy Arnold

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Palgrave USA

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Mercenaries have been employed as auxiliaries since early times, but in the post-1945 world they hav...

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Автор

Guy Arnold

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1999

страници

198

EAN

9780312222031

ISBN

0312222033

Enbook ID

02939112

Издател

Palgrave USA

Теглоt

425

Размери

140 x 216 x 20

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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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