Executive Outcomes: Against All Odds - Brossura

Barlow, Eeben

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1919854193 ISBN 13: 9781919854199

Casa editrice: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

Executive outcomes is the model on which all Private military companies (PMCs) operating in Iraq and Afghanistan are based. Founded by author Eeben Barlow in the early 1990s he originally offered courses in intelligence to South Africa's special forces and security work to De Beers' diamond mining industry. This was greatly expanded in 1993 when an oil company offered EO a contract to provide security for its staff while they recovered valuable drilling equipment stranded at the Angolan oil port of Soyo - after its capture by UNITA rebels. Barlow recruited ex-members of South Africa's elite military units for the job. EO was contracted for a month, but this ended up being extended and EO spearheading an Angolan Army assault on Soyo and its capture from UNITA. This highly successful operation led to a contract to retrain the Angolan Army. Both UNITA and MPLA had taken part in UN supervised elections in 1992, but UNITA had rejected the results after losing and it had returned to civil war. During a hard-fought campaign, retrained Angolan Army units led by EO captured Cafunfu - the diamond producing area that funded UNITA's war effort.Eventually, international pressure spearheaded by

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• Editore: Galago Publishing Pty Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1919854193
• ISBN 13: 9781919854199
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 552