PMCs Can Win the War on Terror in Africa
With a budget that represents a minuscule fraction of U.S. defense spending, we managed to do something the United States hadn’t throughout the Cold War: win a war.
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With a budget that represents a minuscule fraction of U.S. defense spending, we managed to do something the United States hadn’t throughout the Cold War: win a war.
The National Archives move towards a 20-year-rule mean that many records from the early New Labour years are now available. That includes episodes like the 1998 Arms to Africa Affair when a British mercenary outfit, Tim Spicer's Sandline International, sent...
The sovereign state emerged in Europe as a new and strong political entity with the centralized monarchies of England, Spain, France, and Portugal.
They are charged with war crimes in Ukraine, derided by the Kyiv Independent journalist Ilya Ponomarenko as a ‘bloodthirsty swarm of violent criminals’. In Africa, they stand accused of multiple human rights abuses, of which the massacre of 300 villagers in Moura in central Mali in late Mar...
The practice of using mercenaries has been there for centuries before now. There were mercinaries in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries.