War Dog Fighting Other People Wars The Modern Mercenary in Combat 1st Edition by Al J Venter ISBN 1932033092 9781932033090

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ISBN 10: 1932033092 
ISBN 13: 9781932033090
Author: Al J Venter

Mercenaries have been with us since the dawn of civilization, yet in the modern world they are little understood. While many of today’s freelance fighters provide support for larger military establishments, others wage war where the great powers refuse to tread. In War Dog, Al Venter examines the latter world of mercenary fighters effecting decisions by themselves. In the process he unveils a remarkable array of close-quarters combat action. Having personally visited every locale he describes throughout Africa and the Middle East, 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 Leone’s civil war, he flew in the front bubble of the government’s lone Hind gunship—piloted by the heroic chopper ace “Nellis”—as it flew daily missions to blast apart rebel positions. In this book the author not only describes the battles of the legendary South African mercenary company Executive Outcomes, he knew the founders personally and joined them on a number of actions. After stemming the tide of Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA army in Angola (an outfit many of the SA operators had previously trained), Executive Outcomes 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, in hopes that they would someday be able to stand on their own. 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 the process their heroism went unrecorded and their combat skill became known only to each other. In this book we gain an intimate glimpse of this modern breed of warrior in combat. Not laden with medals, ribbons, civic parades, or even guaranteed income, they have nevertheless fought some of the toughest battles in the post- Cold War era. They simply are, and perhaps always will be, “War Dogs.” AL J. VENTER has been an international war correspondent for nearly thirty years, primarily for the Jane’s Information Group. He has also produced documentary television films on subjects from the wars in Africa and Afghanistan to sharkhunting off the Cape of Good Hope. Among his previous works are The Iraqi War Debrief: Why Saddam Hussein Was Toppled and Iran’s Nuclear Option: Tehran’s Quest for the Atomic Bomb. A native of South Africa, he is currently resident in the United Kingdom.

War Dog Fighting Other People’s Wars: The Modern Mercenary in Combat 1st Table of contents:

PART I: A THIN LINE
1. Helicopter Gunships in Sierra Leone’s War
2. Neal Ellis: Jungle Warrior
3. Strike on Makeni and British Involvement
4. Combat Flights Into the Interior
5. Radio Intercepts and the Inevitable SAMs
6. The United Nations Debacle in West Africa
7. Strange Bedfellows in Mercenary Wars
PART II: MAELSTROM IN THE JUNGLE
8. More Mercs—More Wars
9. Mercenaries in Bosnia, Lebanon and Elsewhere
10. Early Mercenary Activity in the Congo
11. Soldiers of Fortune During Mobutu’s Rule
12. Nellis and His War Dogs in the Congo
13. Zimbabwe’s Mercenaries in Congo’s War
14. Biafra’s War and More Foreign Intervention
PART III: THE RISE OF THE PROFESSIONALS
15. Executive Outcomes in Angola
16. How Executive Outcomes Ran Its Wars
17. The Mercenary Air War in Angola
18. Taking Angola’s Diamond Fields from the Rebels
19. An American Warrior Dies in Africa
20. Executive Outcomes Moves North
21. Gunship Combat in West Africa
22. Sierra Leone’s Diamond War
23. War Dogs Hit a Rebel Base in the Jungle
24. A Future for Private Military Companies

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