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Spicer's military career saw him rise steadily to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, a progress punctuated by regular bursts of action and some high-profile training assignments. Winning the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst and passing out in the top echelon of his class at the Staff College provided him the background and experience that led him to set up Sandline International ... and walk into some of the most controversial events of the decade.
In this fast-moving account of his life, Tim Spicer describes all the events surrounding the catastrophe in Papua New Guinea, when he was captured at gunpoint and held in captivity - and came away with his life, his men ... and $36 million dollars.
Here too is the full truth about the notorious "Arms for Africa" affair--the Sandline Affair of 1996, which tied Robin Cook, the Foreign Office and Customs and Excise in an almighty knot over whether Sandline had broken a UN embargo on supplying arms to the legitimate government-in-exile of Sierra Leone. Training troops in Africa or Asia, rescue missions to the Congo and developing a new concept for military operations are all part of Spicer's story.
All this provides the highlights to an entertaining account of modern soldiering in peace and war, on the creation of private military companies - the modern, legitimate version of the old mercenary ideal--and concludes with Tim Spicer's troubled forecast about the dangerous world that lles ahead in the upcoming millennium. For a look at life as it is lived in some of the world's trouble spots, and a glimpse of the intrigue that lies behind the British political scene, this book is a must for every thinking person's bookshelf.
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