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9781932033090

War Dog

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    9781932033090

  • ISBN10:

    1932033092

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2/15/2006
  • Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc
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Summary

"Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today's freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting decisions by themselves. In the process he unveils a remarkable array of close-quarter combat action."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Frederick Forsyth
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue 1(24)
PART I: A THIN LINE
Helicopter Gunships in Sierra Leone's War
25(24)
Neal Ellis: Jungle Warrior
49(20)
Strike on Makeni and British Involvement
69(24)
Combat Flights Into the Interior
93(22)
Radio Intercepts and the Inevitable SAMs
115(16)
The United Nations Debacle in West Africa
131(24)
Strange Bedfellows in Mercenary Wars
155(36)
PART II: MAELSTROM IN THE JUNGLE
More Mercs---More Wars
191(16)
Mercenaries in Bosnia, Lebanon and Elsewhere
207(34)
Early Mercenary Activity in the Congo
241(16)
Soldiers of Fortune During Mobutu's Rule
257(22)
Nellis and His War Dogs in the Congo
279(16)
Zimbabwe's Mercenaries in Congo's War
295(26)
Biafra's War and More Foreign Intervention
321(28)
PART III: THE RISE OF THE PROFESSIONALS
Executive Outcomes in Angola
349(38)
How Executive Outcomes Ran Its Wars
387(18)
The Mercenary Air War in Angola
405(20)
Taking Angola's Diamond Fields from the Rebels
425(20)
An American Warrior Dies in Africa
445(16)
Executive Outcomes Moves North
461(26)
Gunship Combat in West Africa
487(26)
Sierra Leone's Diamond War
513(26)
War Dogs Hit a Rebel Base in the Jungle
539(14)
A Future for Private Military Companies
553(26)
Epilogue 579(16)
IPOA Code of Conduct 595(4)
Notes 599

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