War Dog: Fighting Other People`s Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat Al J Venter

War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars -The Modern Mercenary in Combat

Author: Al J Venter 

Publisher: Casemate, Havertown, PA, USA

Edition: First 2003

ISBN:  1-932033-09-2  

Language: English  

Condition: Very good. Clean copy with tight binding 

Binding: Hardcover    

Pages: 497. Print with images 

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Mercenaries have been around since the dawn of civilization, yet today they are little understood. While many modern freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter, in the process he unveils a remarkable array of close quarters combat action. Having personally visited everywhere he describes; Venter is the rare correspondent who had to carry an AK-47 in his research along with his notebook and camera. To him, covering mercenary actions meant accompanying the men into the thick of combat. During Sierra Leones civil war, he flew in the governments lone Hind gun shippiloted by the heroic chopper ace Nellisas it flew daily missions to blast apart rebel positions. In this book Venter describes the battles of the South African mercenary company Executive Outcomes and after stemming the tide of Jonas Savimbis UNITA army in Angola they headed north to hold back vicious rebels in West Africa. This book is not only about triumph against adversity but also losses, as Venter relates the death and subsequent cannibalistic fate of his American friend, Bob MacKenzie, in Sierra Leone. Here we see the plight of thousands of civilians fleeing from homicidal jungle warriors, as well as the professionalism of the mercenaries who fought back with one hand and attempted to train government troops with the other. The American public, as well as its military, largely sidestepped the horrific conflicts that embroiled Africa during the past two decades. But as Venter informs us, there were indeed small numbers of professional fighters on the ground, defending civilians and attempting to conjure order from chaos. In this book we gain an intimate glimpse of this modern breed of warrior in combat. 

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