War dog
Subtitle: fighting other people's wars : the modern mercenary in combat
By: by Al J. Venter ; foreword by Frederick Forsyth
Contributors: Forsyth, Frederick, 1938-
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa; Newbury
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9781932033908
Subjects: Mercenary troops; Military History; Mercenaires; Histoire militaire; Mercenaries
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-609).
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: A Thin Line -- -- 1; title: Helicopter Gunships in Sierra Leone's War -- 25 -- 2; title: Neal Ellis: Jungle Warrior -- 49 -- 3; title: Strike on Makeni and British Involvement -- 69 -- 4; title: Combat Flights Into the Interior -- 93 -- 5; title: Radio Intercepts and the Inevitable SAMs -- 115 -- 6; title: United Nations Debacle in West Africa -- 131 -- 7; title: Strange Bedfellows in Mercenary Wars -- 155 -- Part II; title: Maelstrom in the Jungle -- -- 8; title: More Mercs-More Wars -- 191 -- 9; title: Mercenaries in Bosnia, Lebanon and Elsewhere -- 207 -- 10; title: Early Mercenary Activity in the Congo -- 241 -- 11; title: Soldiers of Fortune During Mobutu's Rule -- 257 -- 12; title: Nellis and His War Dogs in the Congo -- 279 -- 13; title: Zimbabwe's Mercenaries in Congo's War -- 295 -- 14; title: Biafra's War and More Foreign Intervention -- 321 -- Part III; title: Rise of the Professionals -- -- 15; title: Executive Outcomes in Angola -- 349 -- 16; title: How Executive Outcomes Ran Its Wars -- 387 -- 17; title: Mercenary Air War in Angola -- 405 -- 18; title: Taking Angola's Diamond Fields from the Rebels -- 425 -- 19; title: An American Warrior Dies in Africa -- 445 -- 20; title: Executive Outcomes Moves North -- 461 -- 21; title: Gunship Combat in West Africa -- 487 -- 22; title: Sierra Leone's Diamond War -- 513 -- 23; title: War Dogs Hit a Rebel Base in the Jungle -- 539 -- 24; title: A Future for Private Military Companies -- 553; title: IPOA Code of Conduct-- 595.