Mercenaries: Scourge of the Developing World

by Guy Arnold

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312222033
• ISBN13: 9780312222031
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"