Mercenaries: Soldiers of Fortune, from Ancient Greece to Today#s Private Military CompaniesRandom House Publishing Group, 18 Ara 2007 - 288 sayfa SOLDIERS OF $$ Privateers, contract killers, corporate warriors. Contract soldiers go by many names, but they all have one thing in common: They fight for money and plunder rather than liberty, God, or country. Now acclaimed author and war vet Michael Lee Lanning traces the compelling history of these fighting machines–from the “Sea Peoples” who fought for the pharaohs’ greater glory to today’s soldiers for hire from private military companies (PMCs) in Iraq and Afghanistan. What emerges is a fascinating account of the men who fight other people’s wars–the Greeks who built an empire for Alexander the Great, the Nubians who accompanied Hannibal across the Alps, the Irish who became the first to go global in their search for work. Soldiers of fortune have always had the power to change the course of war, and Lanning examines their pivotal roles in individual battles and in the rise and fall of empires. As the employment of contract soldiers spreads in Iraq and America’s War on Terrorism–the U.S. paid $30 billion to PMCs in 2003 alone–Mercenaries offers a valuable inside look at a system that appears embedded in our nation’s future. Includes eight pages of photographs |
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Carthage and Rome | 24 |
Middle Ages | 35 |
Italy and the Condottieri | 42 |
The Swiss | 52 |
Wild Geese | 64 |
Hessians | 78 |
Executive Outcomes | 176 |
Sandline International | 187 |
Military Professional Resources Incorporated MPRI | 196 |
Expansion of Private Military Companies | 205 |
United States of America | 215 |
Opposition and Legislation | 223 |
Opportunities and the Future | 231 |
Appendices A Treaty between Great Britain and HesseCassel 1776 | 235 |
French Foreign Legion | 87 |
Gurkhas | 102 |
Mercenaries at Sea | 112 |
Mercenaries in the Air | 123 |
Vietnam | 142 |
Africa | 152 |
B French Foreign Legionnaires Code of Honor | 241 |
Letter of Marque | 243 |
Private Military Contract between Sandline International and Papua New Guinea 1997 | 245 |
E Protocol Addition to the Geneva Convention | 257 |
Bibliography | 267 |
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