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Sto caricando le informazioni... Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible (2007)di Douglas Farah, Stephen Braun
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Very well researched book about Victor Bout, the gun-runner. He made a fortune supplying the child armies of Africa as well as insurgent groups in the Middle East ( ) An informative look at weapons trade with an even look at the issue. Farah's writing is brisk and fast-paced. Farah pulls no punches when explaining that political climate often says one thing but conveniently looks the other way when it comes to getting things done. He profiles two of the most prolific and well-known arms dealers, explaining how governments simultaneously build up their business while pretending to make an effort to pull them down. No single country is held to a greater standard as every alphabet-based country organization is revealed to have dealings in this arena. Farah offers no solutions, merely an accounting of how this world works and will continue to work as long as there is conflict in the world. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
What do the Taliban, Liberian war criminal Charles Taylor, and the U.S. government have in common? They have all done business with the man who put the "blood" in blood diamonds--an immensely wealthy and powerful arms dealer who has flooded Africa and Southwest Asia with weapons of war. Here, two respected journalists tell the story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought. Bout's vast enterprise of guns, planes and money has fueled slaughter in Africa and aided both militant Islamic fanatics in Afghanistan and the American military in Iraq. As the Cold War ended, Bout emerged from a murky post-Soviet intelligence background and quietly amassed a fleet of Russian cargo planes, then began to forge an empire of lethal alliances across the Third World--a war machine able to deliver anything from AK-47s to attack helicopters, to anyone willing to pay.--From publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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