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Peter Scott's recent Lost Crusade , the memoir of a U.S. soldier who trained Cambodian mercenaries, is the most affecting book of any sort I've read in a long time.
The government in this diamond-rich country has battled insurgents since 1991, with mining conglomerates, mercenaries, and other outside interests supplying arms, money, and expertise to both sides.
A long article investigates Executive Outcomes, the firm of South African mercenaries hired to keep order in Sierra Leone.
The nuclear gap between the two countries has widened in India's favor: "Pakistan's generals may not mind sacrificing a few hundred of their soldiers and Afghan mercenaries to Indian air strikes, but they are not going to expose their own cities to needless risk."
As for whether the rest of the film (in which a group of post-Cold War international mercenaries led by Robert De Niro pursues a mysterious suitcase around France) succeeds, that depends on the critic.