Mercenaries: Scourge of the Developing World

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Since 1945, mercenaries have earned an especially bad name for themselves in the Third World. From Colombia to the Congo, Angola to Papua New Guinea they have followed their dubious calling, hiring themselves out for blood money, training the war bands of drug barons, or assisting civil wars. They have gained a reputation for greed, racialism and brutality. Now, a phenomenon is emerging in the form of independent corporations with names such as Executive Outcomes or Sandline offering to sell every kind of military expertise and threatening to become powers in their own right. This book looks at the subject.