Mercenaries: The Scourge of the Third World [Hardcover]

Guy Arnold (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0312222033 | ISBN-13: 978-0312222031 | Publication Date: October 29, 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.

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About the Author

Guy Arnold is a freelance writer who lives in England.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (October 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312222033
• ISBN-13: 978-0312222031
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,991,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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