From the wars in the disintegrating Yugoslavia to the civil war in Sierra Leone "corporate warriors" have appeared in almost all relevant conflicts since the end of the Cold War. The emergence of private military companies, however, goes back even further. This volume is the first to reconstruct the history of the first generation of private military companies, starting with their origins in decolonization and the Cold War.

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Grischa Sutterer, University of Mannheim, Germany.