Description

This new edition features new colour aircraft and vehicle profiles from Tom Cooper and David Bocquelet.  The reader is systematically taken through the first military attempts to stabilize the country after independence and the two distinguishing military campaigns of the decade – the United Nations military operations (Opération des Nations Unies au Congo, or ONUC) to end the secession of the Katanga Province, and the Dragon Operations led by Belgian paratroopers, supported by the US Air Force, launched to end the insurgency in the east of the country – are chronicled in detail. Finally, the mercenary revolt – an event that tainted the reputation of the modern mercenary in Africa – is described.