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Wars
A selection of articles about mercenaries, soldiers, and those men who love their rifle more than they love their wife. From the Spanish Civil War to the bush outside Stanleyville. Sign up here.
Have Gun Will TravelA Soldier of Fortune in Croatia and SomaliaIn the late 1980s Rob Krott quit the US army to find adventure. Within a few years the Harvard graduate was fighting alongside a ragged collection of international misfits in Croatia as the country struggled for independence from post-Communist Yugoslavia. Krott discovered fast that mercenaries don't make much money but he found himself hooked on the adrenaline rush that comes from toting an AK-47 around a warzone ...
Mercenaries, Guns, and Witch DoctorsThe Congo Independence Wars (1960-67)
I am working on a book about the Congo wars of the 1960s that will cover the Katanga secession in 1960, the Simba rebellion of '64, and Jean Schramme's mercenary revolt in '67. Soldiers of fortune, witch doctors, guns, and Belgian colonialism. Can you help? I am interested in hearing from anyone with first hand experience, previously unseen photographs, or in depth knowledge of the Congo or Katanga at that time. E-mail me at brightreview@aol.com or look me up on Skype. My profile mentions the Congo. Discretion is guaranteed - CHRISTOPHER OTHEN.
During the Russian Civil War Baron von Ungern-Sternberg earned a reputation in Siberia as a sadistic warlord whose excesses did more harm to his own side than to his Communist enemies. When the anti-Bolshevik forces collapsed in 1920 the Baron took his men over the border to Chinese-controlled Mongolia. CHRISTOPHER OTHEN looks at the Baron's capture of the Mongolian capital Urga, the first – and last –step of a crazed attempt to build a Buddhist Empire stretching from Mongolia to Portugal.
Crusading Catholics, foreign Fascists, and Muslims with a grudge. The Spanish Civil War set right against left when centuries of grievances erupted into a bloody settling of accounts in 1936. The left-wing volunteers who came from around the world to fight for the Spanish government are well known but more foreigners joined the other side. CHRISTOPHER OTHEN looks at the right-wing version of the International Brigades: the foreign volunteers who fought for General Franco.
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