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Laddar... Four Ball One Tracer: Commanding Executive Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone (utgåvan 2015)av Andrew Hudson (Författare), Roelf van Heerden (Författare)
VerksinformationFOUR BALL, ONE TRACER: Commanding Executive Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone av Andrew Hudson
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Brutally honest and devoid of hyperbole, this is Roelf van Heerden's Executive Outcomes. / Unapologetic, unassuming and forthright, the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes (EO) in Angola and Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations. From fighting UNITA for the critical oil installations and diamond fields of Angola to the offensive against the RUF in Sierra Leone to capture the Kono diamond fields and the palace coup which ousted Captain Valentine Strasser, van Heerden was at the forefront. He tells of the tragedy of child soldiers, illegal diamond mining and the curse of government soldiers who turn on their own people; he tells of RUF atrocities, the harrowing attempt to rescue a downed EO pilot and the poignant efforts to recover the remains of EO soldiers killed in action. Coupled with van Heerden's gripping exposé, hitherto unpublished photographs, order of battle charts and battle maps offer unprecedented access to the major actions as they took place on the ground during the heydays of EO. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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While mercenaries have been rather common in Africa and Asia from [at least] the times of East India Company, EO was a guns-for-hire organization that was providing experienced battle-hardened South African Army ex-soldiers to foreign governments without any direct inclusion of official government from South Africa or any other Western power.
While previously mercenaries played extensive role in wars in Africa they were more or less proxies for the Cold War superpowers. Now you have a situation where very capable combat force can be deployed at the request of the local government anywhere in Africa. Not a good situation in case of any foul play is intended (and on the continent where coups are as common as elections anywhere else in the world foul play is very, very frequent) for a simple reason - no regional armed regular or irregular force is in any way capable to confront and survive the confrontation with EO.
I understand EO was not in for peanuts (that part of "for-hire" in "guns-for-hire") but they more than changed the playfield and proved that highly trained force with operational experience in the region that is ready and capable to work with the locals can be a true game-changer in the highly volatile African theater. No wonder everyone was for quick dissolution of EO - only to put their own PMC's in the field all around the world as soon as possible.
Highly recommended. ( )