Mercenaries: a guide to private armies and private military companies
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Los Angeles, Calif. [u.a.]
CQ Press
2014
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XX, 413 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781608712489 |
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| adam_text | Contents
About the Author
xi
Preface
xiii
Part I: Roots and Precedents
Introduction
3
1.
The Ancient World (15th
с
BCE-ca.
476) 9
Evidence for Mercenaries at Megiddo
9
The Use of Mercenaries during Egypt s Decline
12
The Greek Mercenary Industry in the Ancient World
13
Greek Mercenaries in the Service of Persia s Cyrus II
15
Greek Mercenaries in Civil War
16
Philip II Eschews Mercenaries
17
Resurgence in Mercenary Deployment after the Death of Alexander the Great
18
Rome Resorts to Mercenaries
21
2.
The Middle Ages
(988-1453) 23
The Feudal Military System
23
The Scutage Option
25
Urban Variations within the Feudal Military System
25
Introduction of Mercenaries into the Feudal Military
26
The Varangian Guard
26
The Era of the Companies
28
The Great Company
29
Role of Mercenaries in the Creation of State Armies
32
3.
Feudal Japan and the Ottoman Empire (15th c-1826)
35
Feudal Japan: Overview
36
Feudal Japan: The Ninja
36
Ottoman Empire
42
4.
Swiss Export Armies, German
Landsknechts,
and the Wild Geese
of Ireland
(1315-1918) 49
The Swiss
49
Landsknechts 52
The Wild Geese
59
5.
Colonial Control: Hessians and Gurkhas
(1775-1947) 63
Hessians
64
Gurkhas
68
6.
State-Sanctioned Piracy: Corsairs and Privateers
(1049-1865) 73
Early History
74
Proliferation and Dangers
74
Privateering by Country
75
The End or Privateering
86
7.
The Filibusters (19th c.)
89
The First U.S. Filibusters
90
William Walker: The
Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny
96
Part II: Soldiers of Fortune
Introduction
105
8.
The Legendary Legion
(1831
-Present)
109
The French Foreign Legion as Cultural Icon
110
Precursors and Early History
112
The First Foreign Legion
113
Second Foreign Legion
116
The Official Second Foreign Legion
116
After the Crimean War
116
Return to Colonial Service
117
World War I
117
Rebuilding and Expanding the Legion
118
World War II
118
The Postwar Legion
119
The French Foreign Legion Today
119
9.
Mercenaries of the Air
(1861
-Present)
123
Second
Seminoie
War and the U.S.-Mexican War
124
American Civil War
125
Rebirth of the Balloon Corps and Service in the Spanish-American War
129
The Mexican Revolution
130
World War I and the Lafayette
Escadrille
132
Fliers of Fortune
135
Between World War I and World War II
136
Vietnam War
140
Mercenary Airmen in the Post-Vietnam Era
143
10.
Mercenaries in the Vietnam Wars
(1883-1975) 149
The First Mercenaries
149
More Flags
153
Rejected Options
155
Internal Mercenaries
156
11.
Mercenary Marketplace: Africa
(1960-1
990s)
161
Congo
162
Nigerian Civil War
168
Rhodesián
Bush War
172
Angola
174
Bob Denard in the Comoros
177
Mad Mike Hoare in the Seychelles
178
Part III: The Modern Privatized Military Industry
Introduction
183
12.
Mercenary, Inc.: Warfare Corporatized
187
The Corporate Transformation
188
How Legitimate Is Too Legitimate?
190
Impetus to Privatization
191
Asymmetric Threats, Terrorism, and Non-State Actors
192
Resources Aplenty
193
Abrogation of Government and State-Sanctioned Military Response
195
State of the Art
196
Normalization of Military Privatization
196
13.
Executive Outcomes: Operational Provider
199
Origins
199
Creating Executive Outcomes
201
Funding and Corporate Structure
203
Services
204
Executive Outcomes Operations
205
Dissolution
209
14. Sandline International:
Operational
Provider 213
Emergence of
Sandline International 214
Sandline
Policy
215
Sandline Expertise
and Ethics
216
Operation Contravene: Sandline s Maiden
Contract
217
Sierra Leone: The Sandline Affair 220
The End of
Sandline 221
15. Blackwater/Xe/Academi:
Operational
Provider 223
The Most Powerful Mercenary Army
224
Beginnings
225
From Training to Force Protection
228
The Blackwater Record in Iraq
229
Blowback
232
Changes of Name and Image
233
Blackwater Beyond Iraq
234
Blackwater: The Case for (and against) Victory for Hire
235
16.
Other Operational Provider Firms
239
France
240
Israel
243
Philippines
246
United Kingdom
246
United States
252
17.
Engility (Formerly MPRI and L-3 MPRI): Consulting Provider
255
Beginnings
256
Domestic Contracts
257
International Contracts
258
As Engility
262
18.
Other Consulting Provider Firms
265
Canada
266
Israel
267
United Kingdom
268
United States
269
19.
Halliburton/BRS/KBR: Logistical Provider
277
Corporate History
278
Operational History
281
Controversies
285
Evaluation
287
20.
Other Logistical Provider Firms
291
Canada
292
United States
293
21.
AirScan: Intelligence Provider
309
Against the Grain
310
From the Archive
313
U.S. Air Force Launch Security
316
AirScan in Africa
316
AirScan in Colombia
317
AirScan in the Former Yugoslavia
320
AirScan Today
321
22.
Other Intelligence Provider Firms
325
Australia
325
France
326
Hong Kong
327
Hungary
327
Israel
328
South Africa
328
United Arab Emirates
329
United Kingdom
329
United States
331
23.
ArmorGroupAHS: Security and
Antiterror
Provider
337
Corporate History
338
Government Connections
340
Major Contracts
341
Controversies
343
Armor
Gro
up/G4S Today
346
24.
Other Security and
Antiterror
Provider Firms
349
Cyprus
350
France
351
Iraq
351
Israel
352
South Africa
353
Sweden
355
United Arab Emirates
356
United Kingdom
358
United States
360
Bibliography
373
Index
383
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