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Sandline's mercenaries helped Kopassus
Pacific Journalism Review, 2000 Mercenaries expelled from Papua New Guinea in 1997 had worked a year earlier in West Papua assisting Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces troops in an operation that caused many civilian deaths.
Peter Cronau
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The dynamics of terrorist organizations
Operations Research Perspectives, 2019 Terrorist organizations are most often comprised of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, and captive participants. Ideologues provide political purpose and direction and have a strong group commitment. However, every organization needs money to survive. For
Kjell Hausken
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Mercenaries as a political Tool of World Powers in the Congo Сrisis of 1960–1967
Международная аналитика, 2018 The period of national liberation movements was marked by a struggle for political influence between world powers in the rich newly independent countries.
M. A. Nebolsina
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Alkaios on the role of Mytilenian aristocracy in the economic life during stasis
RUDN Journal of World History, 2021 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence concerning different activities of aristocracy and if possible to define its role in the economic life during a very specific period in the history of archaic Mytilene, i.e. stasis.
Yelena Ivanovna Solomatina
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PRIVATIZATION OF SECURITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM MERCENARIES TO PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018 The present paper aims to emphasize the context of the privatization of security in the 20th century and to show the differences between these newly created corporations and the old mercenaries.
Ramona Ioana GOGA
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Szlachetni, odważni, dzicy? Obraz Waregów i Franków w oczach Bizantyńczyków w X-XI w.
Vox Patrum, 2018 During Xth and XIth century the Byzantine Empire was one of the strongest states in the Levant. In mentioned period the emperors undertook numerous military campaigns, both in order to expand the borders of the empire and restitute their authority on ...
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Erga-Logoi, 2019 The exact chronology of Dionysius I’s campaigns in the ’80s of the IVth century B.C. is still in question. The sources relate Dionysius’ capture of Rhegion (Diodorus, Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and the treaty with the Gauls (Justin) to the ...
Andrea Pierozzi
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Media, church and the Sandline plot?
Pacific Journalism Review, 1996 The news media (both Papua New Guinean and foreign) did a great job carrying the events of the Sandline crisis and the general election in its wake.
William Ferea
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Bulgarians’ Motivation for Participation in Private Military Companies [PDF]
Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2023 Private military companies are becoming increasingly popular; their manpower is higher than the manpower of some national armies. Nevertheless, they still exist in the shadows and are often called “shadow armies”.
Hristo Tutunarov
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The mercenaries of Hellenistic Crete
, 2020 This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE). Mercenaries ought to be contextualized among the diplomatic strategies by which Greek cities sought to remain ...
Craven, Stephanie Pamela
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