| 书目名称 | Mercenaries | | 副标题 | Scourge of the Devel | | 编辑 | Guy Arnold | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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. | | 出版日期 | Book 1999 | | 关键词 | armed conflict; Armee; Civil War; Cold War; Europe | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27708-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-349-27708-7 | | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999 |
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