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fighting other people's wars : the modern mercenary in combat

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An edition of WAR DOG (1904)

War dog

fighting other people's wars : the modern mercenary in combat

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One of a handful of correspondents who saw action with the South African mercenary group Executive Outcomes, Al Venter's revelations about the organisation and events occuring in the Democratic Republic of Congo are remarkable. He gets up close and personal with hardened pros, joining them in dangerous missions.

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Publisher
Casemate
Language
English
Pages
609

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War dog: fighting other people's wars : the modern mercenary in combat
2008, Casemate
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WAR DOG: Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat
February 2006, Casemate
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1904, Casemate Publishers (Ignition)
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Table of Contents

Part I
A Thin Line -- -- 1
Helicopter Gunships in Sierra Leone's War -- 25 -- 2
Neal Ellis: Jungle Warrior -- 49 -- 3
Strike on Makeni and British Involvement -- 69 -- 4
Combat Flights Into the Interior -- 93 -- 5
Radio Intercepts and the Inevitable SAMs -- 115 -- 6
United Nations Debacle in West Africa -- 131 -- 7
Strange Bedfellows in Mercenary Wars -- 155 -- Part II
Maelstrom in the Jungle -- -- 8
More Mercs-More Wars -- 191 -- 9
Mercenaries in Bosnia, Lebanon and Elsewhere -- 207 -- 10
Early Mercenary Activity in the Congo -- 241 -- 11
Soldiers of Fortune During Mobutu's Rule -- 257 -- 12
Nellis and His War Dogs in the Congo -- 279 -- 13
Zimbabwe's Mercenaries in Congo's War -- 295 -- 14
Biafra's War and More Foreign Intervention -- 321 -- Part III
Rise of the Professionals -- -- 15
Executive Outcomes in Angola -- 349 -- 16
How Executive Outcomes Ran Its Wars -- 387 -- 17
Mercenary Air War in Angola -- 405 -- 18
Taking Angola's Diamond Fields from the Rebels -- 425 -- 19
An American Warrior Dies in Africa -- 445 -- 20
Executive Outcomes Moves North -- 461 -- 21
Gunship Combat in West Africa -- 487 -- 22
Sierra Leone's Diamond War -- 513 -- 23
War Dogs Hit a Rebel Base in the Jungle -- 539 -- 24
A Future for Private Military Companies -- 553
IPOA Code of Conduct-- 595.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-609).

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Philadelphia, Pa, Newbury

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.354
Library of Congress
UA855 .V46 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 609 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
609

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39827182M
Internet Archive
wardogfightingot0000vent
ISBN 10
1932033904
ISBN 13
9781932033908
OCLC/WorldCat
191754660
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9781932033908

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