My father fought in the South African border war. He was part of Koevoet. They were a counter insurgency unit. After the war ended he was approached by his ex war buddies who joined Executive Outcomes. Because our family needed the cash he went. I remember being around these guys. I can't imagine them being fighters because at that age they were like my uncles. My dad left a year before EO ended. He then moved to doing IT and that is his passion.
@@Antipodean33 What a ludicrous position to take. You have just watched a documentary containing peoples families, comrades and journalist talking about them in the third person, you have just watched it yourself and by your logic their business is none of yours and finally you assume that this person's experience, as they relate it isn't theirs to talk about. They didn't mention their father's name, not even their own. I served in SF and my children or wife are free to relate that to people as they see fit. If there is something I don''t want them to relate I don't tell them in the first place. If you think what people do in war is their business then don't be a hypocrite and watch docos about them.
Nahh, feels old, plenty of material to make new documentaries now, but they don't, because everyone is under the same agenda, which is to keep you from knowing anything, example: 911 nothing but lies, the Iraq war nothing but lies, Afghanistan nothing but lies, ISIS nothing but lies, Ukraine nothing but lies, Gaza Israel nothing but lies. No one wants to do documentaries about anything
I served in the us army for 10 years, I am a proud paratrooper. I am just a puppy compared to the men of executive outcomes. Respect coming from New York baby
After my great uncle fought in the Rhodesian Civil War he helped my father get in the recces and then got his son into the mercenary business. After that I'm not to sure what happened to my uncles kid but my dad served 18 years and came out nearly getting hired by blackwater. Not sure how true that was but there was a company looking to hire my father for his experience in the military dunno if it was blackwater or not pretty sure they go by a different name today
Long before these guys there was Colonel 'Mad' Mike Hoare. He( or a representative) would come to attempt to recruit mercenaries for the Congo and other areas on demob days at the end of our military service in the sixties. Mercenaries could earn $20000 dollars a month then, equivalent to about 200000 in todays buying power. One of the earliest and most successful soldiers of fortune. I sometimes wonder whether joining him for a year would have been life-altering.
Might have been physically altering your body for life, possible loss of life and certainly mentally challenged by the experience. All in the fun of modern war.
Executive Outcomes was a First Class Unit that got shit done with minimal personal and were 100% Effective wherever they were employed because they were all well trained and disciplined. Sound tactics and discipline coupled with dedicated Troops are just about unstoppable when lead correctly. Legends.
Whatever the eff you say, yea they were great killers, lovey chaps that never dispatched the innocent hell no because they always knew who was the enemy. And it don't surprise me or many that the western world has a company like this, with association with govts like the UK and the US. Atleast the Russians do only what is legal and only goes where it is invited. Oh, and leaves when asked, not like the US who once in a country it is very hard to get rid of them. For instance Germany who wanted (asked) the US to go in 2014, Syria who they are also stealing the oil from the fields they "guard"" from ISIS who they own anyway. Then Japan, been occupied for nearly ever, South Korea. They even occupy part of China, as Taiwan is part of China and the US agrees with that and it is stated on their embassy website. I could full the page and more with more examples.
Wow, thanks totally random citizen of the world who is definitely not at all affiliated with Executive Outcomes (tm)! It certainly sounds like no matter what the obstacle, you can always count on EO's demonstrably experienced personnel and leadership to accomplish...well, just about anything!* Please, tell me more about the professionalism and skill of Executive-Outcomes (r) (c)! _*(that involves mechanically murdering people)_
@@southernafricanboy4148 when the zim government started confiscation of white owned farms Many were isolated and the only fast way to evac was by air Cessna 206 3-4 man ground team 1 suit case each
Yep. It was especially funny when they were screaming about the civilian casualties. Clearly never heard of the Vietnam war or the Highway of Death when america murdered thousands of civilians
One of the big issues is Western (and more recently eastern) countries want extraction deals where they get 95+% of the profit. If the government says no, they could expect blacklisting from any banking deals, sanctions, and ultimately a coup. The next leader would be hand picked by the west. The saudis play ball, Iran doesn't. Both have rights issues, but we only have issues with one.
woah so weird how Africa can't fix their own issues when every time they try western military bases suddenly lose a bunch of weapons which suddenly shows up in the hands of some coup coronel. so weird!
brotherman, they only advanced the interestes of their foreign investors, THAT is their job as a company. i mean, i have to question the sense in comparing a private company with a multinational political body to begin with. both have fundamentally different goals.
@@DogeickBateman have we watched the same documentary? do you even understand how private buisnesses work?? legally and as a organization, theyre beholden to shareholder profit increase and nothing else. thats their job, not "peace" lmao.
@@pissfather6798 And yet they achieved what the UN failed to do - achieve results, drive back the rebels and do it professionally. I'm not a fan of shareholder profit gouging but you strike me as the type who criticizes yet never offers a solution.
Would have been lovely to have had Simon Mann in this documentary. His tell all book Cry Havoc is quite informative. Finally put faces on characters in his books. Great Doccie!!
I didn't realise David Sterling formed a proto-mercenary outfit called Capricorn. I always wondered what a man like that did after the war ended. Turns out, when the environment he excelled in evaporated, he set himself up to distill more.
There was a point in time when SA army had the best capabilities. I am a coloured guy and watched lots of old war videos and documentaries , even met older guys who served and they told amazing stories. My best friend dad who served and left to join a private company made money off vip protection and extractions in iraq started a private security armed response unit in cape town I joined the company saved lots of lives and fell inlove with small arms and ARs now I live in Dubai 6 years and train Dubai police. I will always be thankful not to long ago in a popular beach club called barasti lol was asked by Albanian mercenaries to join them.
@@paulmuller-hg8lpheaven forbid sombody lived and thinks differently than you. Yeah some of thier ideas are trash and trash people. But so is the other sides. Both red and blue are nothing but puppets for politicians.. Bye lemmming.
And Venter the journalist on here is a M055 ad plant working for the same people who brought down Rhodesia, Apartheid South Africa and Britains border controls - masquerading as your "greatest ally"
Yeah just the same as us. Really. Hacking people up with machetes and boiling the pieces up in a pot for a spot of lunch ,is something we just find a horrible taboo that happens in far away lands by long lost tribes.But unfortunately it is a daily occurrence in a few countries. Gangs in Haiti are well known for eating each other. Crazy.🙏
There are sometimes valid reasons for everything, as everything has it's reasons. "The World is a Nation of Sheep. Controlled by Wolves and Owned by Pigs". 😮😅😊
"Owned by Pigs" Reminiscent of the book 'Animal Farm' modeling the joys of egalitarian communism. Where all animals are equal, but after the revolution overthrew the oppressor, the sheep discover some animals are more equal than others. Rather reminiscent of the Marxist terrorists of the ANC, with Winnie Mansella and other ANC freedom fighters "necklacing" blacks that wouldn't fall in line after the ANC was in control delivering Marxist utopia to the now freed sheep. "Never saw violent Marxist terrorists ever do that before!", said nobody ever.
Really weird that some TH-cam Rando would have the one and only thing pop into their head:"BBBUUUTTT... Muh CIA!" Yeah, all the links with these groups brought in to deal with Marxist terrorists like the ANC in these former British Colonies were American - not Brits. MI6 told the CIA to stop that American drinking coffee thing and sip tea instead? This propaganda mocumentary was specifically made and edited to target useful Idiots like this Rando.
Them times was awesome. I remember as a young boy reading in the back of combat and survival magazine and survival leads advertisements to Gobi mercenaries in Africa. All I have to do was grow up and join the British Army which I did, and then it cancelled all the missionary stuff.😢
They fought with UNITA out of convenience. Savimbi wasa dyed in the wool Maoist and UNITA committed its fair share of atrocities against the Portuguese fleeing Angola. I think your "loyal" sentiments are misplaced. UNITA also had the benefit of claiming many actions that were actually SADF actions as their own successes. UNITA was also supported by elements of MI in the Nineties so they could keep earning blood diamond money on the sly.
Conquered people join their conquerors to in turn be the foot soldiers to conquer others. Need for money and fame over honor is what makes this happen. I cannot think of a greater shame that can befall someone.
@edmundwessels2072 They supported Unita and fought in many of the same battles but not with them. Savimbi was the lessor or the two evils at the time and the relationship was one of mutual convenience at best. More like an agreement to get along with the enemy of your enemy . They were also by no means a fan of him. He might have been portrayed as this larger than life charismatic man , but the truth was that he was a power hungry ego maniac and a ruthless murdering son of bitch. Had it not been for the role of convenience or necessity he played , there were several occasions where certain high ranking military people had to be held back or even restrained from putting a bullet between his eyes because of his behavior towards his own people and on the battlefield.
@@Leec_1972 ... Not true... I was with that "MI" lot that you so conveniently malign without having been there... MI was a military organization, not a criminal cartel. Where would MI have sold these diamonds, and which of their "Bank Accounts" would they have used? How would MI have divided the loot? I worked inside of UNITA from 1977 thru 1979. Height of the involvement and at the top level. Go away and stop commenting on stuff that you wish you could have been involved in.
@@garylandman7889 You were not the only one who served in the SADF. MI acted like a criminal cartel. Why did they keep supporting UNITA after the war? Why were people connected with MI so invested in keeping the diamond fields under UNITA hands in secret AFTER the war ended? Yes they did act like a criminal cartel and they went to great lengths to destroy those that tried to stop it. Look at Angola since your buddies have not been ravaging the place and recruiting child sildiers. How do you know where I was or where I wasn't. Jonas Savimbi was an avowed Maois who p on a Chrisian facade to fool people like you and yes UNITA was inviolved in atrocities against the Portuguese. So you can "go away".
Yes he is talking BS. The Soviet era ODAB-1500 fuel air thermometric bomb - used in Ukraine in 2024; has a radius of ~150 meters, weight 1.5 TONS. Above exist the FOAB - tested once by Russia in 2007, but no data about this effective range is know.
People want to complain about EO, but these same people supported Black Water. EO and companies like them are doing a great service, they are doing what governments and civilians can't stomach.
@@quintinsmith5400 you do realize that if western countries can't exploit the resources of African countries, they sabotage them in myriad ways to get them destabilized to get more amenable leadership. The video literally showed mercenaries killing to get mines back for to western controlled puppet governments rather than the local population. When you hear the term "rebel fighter", it often means person that doesn't want resources stolen from the country.
@@quintinsmith5400Yes, explain how much better SA is now since the ANC Marxist terrorists came to power and turned Winnie Mandela loose to "necklace" blacks who wouldn't get with the ANC program. How the common man is now safer and better off economically. And why both black and white professionals continue to flee the Marxist mecca that the ANC has made it. This should be good!
I just started and already love how this guys accent over-charges AI subtitle generation at 0:31, turning "I was flying a (Boeing) 727 jet out of..." into something like "I was flying 7 to 7 shit out of...". Later I came to learn about the Polish government of Angola. ;-D
They dont work for people, they only work for the highest bidder. Large corporations have caused the world we live in to be so "evil". How can you say thyat these are the people we should turn to for salvation?
this comment is either very stupid or i'm missing something. the point of a mercenary force is that they have no morals or allegiance!!! as other guy said, they work for the highest bidder. these are the last guys id want to have at my side (even though im sure their very well trained and capable and decent guys in their own right)
@@nospoon4799 not entirely true. If the world around you is falling apart and your own government cannot protect you and is in danger of being overrun as well and makes a call to a company thousands of kilometers away and that has nothing to do with either you or your country or your troubles and your own government and its army and police that are there to protect you cannot help you then what options do you have ? Are you going to point a finger and judge the people that hear your cry for help and say they are willing to travel thousand of kilometers with all their equipment and manpower to come and do a job you and your government cannot do but for a price? A price which your government is willing to pay for the acquisition of these man and there entire operation and everything that goes with it and comes along with it including them having to give up their lives if need be or stand the chance of loosing their lives . Those governments paid in the only currency they had available , a currency which very likely would have been taken by the same people that threatened your livelihood and well-being as well as that of your country . More often than not this company had to finance their entire setup and move from country A to B with the only deposit or upfront payment so to say being in the form of an agreement or deal in the form of a mining concession on good faith once the shit had been sorted out and removed so that peace and some form of normality could prevail and people could go back to their homes and try to rebuild their lives. EO was a business and they ran it very efficiently and professionally. Trust me, when things go south and your world turns upside down and your life becomes a living shit show and a fight for survival , these are the type of people you want around you and working for you . Way more efficient than the UN ,way more effective and at a fraction of the cost by a mile. Also as far as morals go , they only worked for governments that were legally elected , no dictators or self imposed rulers or those put in place to rule as puppets for foreign masters and their interests just like the US does as well as a few other countries in the EU I could mention. You like pretty much everyone else out there wouldn’t work for free, why on earth would you expect them to work for free and at the risk of them loosing their own lives in another country fixing up someone else mess and problems. Their charity was that they were prepared to come and do the job that nobody else was willing or prepared to do , never mind capable of doing.
@@archiemercer5499 not entirely true. If the world around you is falling apart and your own government cannot protect you and is in danger of being overrun as well and makes a call to a company thousands of kilometers away and that has nothing to do with either you or your country or your troubles and your own government and its army and police that are there to protect you cannot help you then what options do you have ? Are you going to point a finger and judge the people that hear your cry for help and say they are willing to travel thousand of kilometers with all their equipment and manpower to come and do a job you and your government cannot do but for a price? A price which your government is willing to pay for the acquisition of these man and there entire operation and everything that goes with it and comes along with it including them having to give up their lives if need be or stand the chance of loosing their lives . Those governments paid in the only currency they had available , a currency which very likely would have been taken by the same people that threatened your livelihood and well-being as well as that of your country . More often than not this company had to finance their entire setup and move from country A to B with the only deposit or upfront payment so to say being in the form of an agreement or deal in the form of a mining concession on good faith once the shit had been sorted out and removed so that peace and some form of normality could prevail and people could go back to their homes and try to rebuild their lives. EO was a business and they ran it very efficiently and professionally. Trust me, when things go south and your world turns upside down and your life becomes a living shit show and a fight for survival , these are the type of people you want around you and working for you . Way more efficient than the UN ,way more effective and at a fraction of the cost by a mile. Also as far as morals go , they only worked for governments that were legally elected , no dictators or self imposed rulers or those put in place to rule as puppets for foreign masters and their interests just like the US does as well as a few other countries in the EU I could mention. You like pretty much everyone else out there wouldn’t work for free, why on earth would you expect them to work for free and at the risk of them loosing their own lives in another country fixing up someone else mess and problems. Their charity was that they were prepared to come and do the job that nobody else was willing or prepared to do , never mind capable of doing.
I spent over 30 years in the US Army (8 enlisted, 24 commissioned officer.) Air orne Infantry (Rangers,) Special Forces. 5 years and 8 months total "official" combat time. Wounded about a dozen times and seriously injured a few times in training incidents; a number of Rangers and SF guys get badly injured and killed every year. Same with top-level special operations units in France, the UK, Australia, or New Zealand. I've run into EO people a number of times. WE never worked in ANYTHING connected to them that I know of, or ever heard about. BUT. From early 1993 to Jan 2000, under Clinton, we were DENIED going to a LOT of "troubled" countries and training their forces. Which is a big part of our larger Mission. SO, EO and some other private firms went in, since we weren't allowed. This also coincided with the FLOOD of civil wars and insurgencies in Africa and other places. FORTUNATELY, when George W came in, we continued our authorized missions. EO, Sandline, or whatever they call themselves are well-trained and very capable. If there's a need, with high returns, I don't blame them. As long as they follow the rules and stay within their remit, more power to them.
Executive outcomes is NO MORE RUTHLESS THAN THEIR ADVERSARIES. THE GUYS THEYRE FIGHTING HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND IF YOU THINK THE GUYS THEYRE FIGHTING TAKE ANY PRISONERS THEN YOUR LIVING IN FAIRY LAND. E. O. IS CLEANING OUT POCKETS OF RUTHLESS COMBATANTS AND SHOULD BE JUST LEFT ALONE TO RISK THEIR ALL IN THEIR SERVICE...
Very interesting report, this is before the iraqi invasion when private security companies came at the forefront, when they were shown as "rockstars", "cool" dudes who they've tried to give them an aura of gentlemen.
Journey man documentaries always biased and pushing a narrative and agenda for someone . Sadly when funded by a group that has an agenda it’s what usually happens . There are so many good documentaries on EO, this one is probably one of the worst I’ve seen.
@@GiantstalkingI'm sure the Marxist terrorist revolutionaries like the ANC made life better in South Africa with their "necklacing" of blacks that didn't get with the program after they came to power. Equally likely that as Marxists, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, they're all cult members of The Rock Fairy Religion Of Atheism... therefore, no worries about going to hell for terrorist acts, because it doesn't exist.
@@whynotjustmyusername How about crucial information that there's no mention that these groups were primarily there in the first place due to the murder, torture, and pillaging of Marxist terrorists like the ANC? Oh wait... you didn't know all these terrorist "freedom fighters" are exactly like Hamas and Hezbollah - including killing more of their people for not getting with the program than they do the "enemy"? You pay this kind of money to hire armed security with experience fighting terrorists because your problem is people blocking the sidewalks in front of your offices? Picketing stores selling your products?
Get over yourself Rambo. You will never make it in an African conflict. No killing Jihadist's in robes and AK's. Did you not take anything from this film? You're a narcissist.
So the Bougainvillea situation still isn't resolved in 2024. The events here happened right after a civil war that cost 15,000-20,000 lives. Fortunately the fighting has mostly ceased since the civil war.
i knew a guy in australia involved in the drug trade back in the 90s. they used to run guns to the bouganville rebels, easy to get here back then from the east. they traded the guns for the marijuana they grew. some then took the money from the pot sales back in aus and spun it in thailand for heroin which is how i met him. when you're looking at a profit of $490 per gram at street level or less for bulk but still very profitable when you only pay $10 per gram at its source.
A lot of conflicting and biased reporting. And the major question would be why now after almost 25 years, this is also old footage portraid as recent, something seriously is brewing!!
MARK STUCKE hello there, this is someone you got into trouble with, going under our school and ended up barricaded under there until we started to spray water back at them. I've the same first name as your brother. I heard of you from Mark Whanga -or Whetu as he was better known. Anyway it would be great to make some contact if you manage to find this. So here's hoping then, cheers
I've never seen a BM-21 grad launch all it's missiles at once. I didn't think it was possible. But like isn't it more effective? al missiles will land at the same time? I am seeing this wrong at 3:50 ?
If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you...prevent inflation
th-cam.com/video/t9kcGVsVVVY/w-d-xo.html "This remarkable video diary made by one of the mercenaries in Angola, shows the reality of how hey behave in the field." My God, soldiers talking like... soldiers?! Say it isn't so! What monsters they were for talking like absolutely anyone would in that position!
I do apologise, war is a deadly serious topic. However, if you want to lighten up, switch on the generated captions around 0:20 and pay attention at ~0:32 Not that i cannot understand the accent, as a non-native anglophone i pretty much can. But i like to imagine this is a "Mock the week" game "What he really thinks". You can't unhear it..
Executive Outcome was the inspiration for the military management game, Jagged Alliance. Even the motto quite different but the operation mission was the same. Think of Mission Impossible but operatives in Africa.
My father fought in the South African border war. He was part of Koevoet. They were a counter insurgency unit. After the war ended he was approached by his ex war buddies who joined Executive Outcomes. Because our family needed the cash he went. I remember being around these guys. I can't imagine them being fighters because at that age they were like my uncles. My dad left a year before EO ended. He then moved to doing IT and that is his passion.
KOEVOET were a very thirsty bunch.🤣🤣🤣😂
You probably shouldn't talk about your father and his past on the net, that is his business, not yours
@@Antipodean33 What a ludicrous position to take. You have just watched a documentary containing peoples families, comrades and journalist talking about them in the third person, you have just watched it yourself and by your logic their business is none of yours and finally you assume that this person's experience, as they relate it isn't theirs to talk about. They didn't mention their father's name, not even their own. I served in SF and my children or wife are free to relate that to people as they see fit. If there is something I don''t want them to relate I don't tell them in the first place.
If you think what people do in war is their business then don't be a hypocrite and watch docos about them.
@@Antipodean33 Information is freedom. Give up the coveting of secrets and a new era awaits you.
EO and Sandline were the first PMCs I made contact with.. good men doing quiet work, not ALWAYS quietly! lol
I honestly prefer these older documentary types. For this type of topic. shows alot more and allow alot more realism.
A lot less narrative and a lot more truth
@@rollinsomethingbutiforgot I agree
I also agree.
Less woke garbage
Nahh, feels old, plenty of material to make new documentaries now, but they don't, because everyone is under the same agenda, which is to keep you from knowing anything, example: 911 nothing but lies, the Iraq war nothing but lies, Afghanistan nothing but lies, ISIS nothing but lies, Ukraine nothing but lies, Gaza Israel nothing but lies. No one wants to do documentaries about anything
The sense of outrage from the documentary at the existence of mercenaries are downright hilarious in the context of our world today.
In any context really. It's probably the second oldest profession.
Holy shit. The contrast between “he wouldn’t hurt a fly” to “he’s a top recon soldier” is insane
Most of the Operators in EO stem from the famous and ruthless 32 Battalion. They are good guys too, nevertheless.
@@sneb1224 Het saam met n Sakkie van 32 geopereur in die Drakensberge en het hy na 2 dae opgepak.....!!!!!
@@vasileyzeitsef8152 Swartberge? Daar by 'Die Hel' ?
Baie 32 manne was VR operateurs. Hehe, ja, die Berg is nie Duku-Duku nie.. Maar dit maak nie saak nie, Kol Bruinman se manne het gat geskop. Was daar.
I imagine to prevent mental trauma, they separate their personal lives with their military ones.
I served in the us army for 10 years, I am a proud paratrooper. I am just a puppy compared to the men of executive outcomes. Respect coming from New York baby
After my great uncle fought in the Rhodesian Civil War he helped my father get in the recces and then got his son into the mercenary business. After that I'm not to sure what happened to my uncles kid but my dad served 18 years and came out nearly getting hired by blackwater. Not sure how true that was but there was a company looking to hire my father for his experience in the military dunno if it was blackwater or not pretty sure they go by a different name today
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Long before these guys there was Colonel 'Mad' Mike Hoare. He( or a representative) would come to attempt to recruit mercenaries for the Congo and other areas on demob days at the end of our military service in the sixties.
Mercenaries could earn $20000 dollars a month then, equivalent to about 200000 in todays buying power. One of the earliest and most successful soldiers of fortune. I sometimes wonder whether joining him for a year would have been life-altering.
Might have been physically altering your body for life, possible loss of life and certainly mentally challenged by the experience.
All in the fun of modern war.
Mike Hoare was a Legend!
Ii@@danielwitham1791
Legends in hell, killing fellow humanity in money
Yes, my dad fought with him in the 5th Commando.
Was one of my favorite outlets in the early days of TH-cam.
So glad you're still doing what y'all do, sharing the truth.
Executive Outcomes was a First Class Unit that got shit done with minimal personal and were 100% Effective wherever they were employed because they were all well trained and disciplined. Sound tactics and discipline coupled with dedicated Troops are just about unstoppable when lead correctly. Legends.
Any place to hire people nowadays
Whatever the eff you say, yea they were great killers, lovey chaps that never dispatched the innocent hell no because they always knew who was the enemy. And it don't surprise me or many that the western world has a company like this, with association with govts like the UK and the US. Atleast the Russians do only what is legal and only goes where it is invited. Oh, and leaves when asked, not like the US who once in a country it is very hard to get rid of them. For instance Germany who wanted (asked) the US to go in 2014, Syria who they are also stealing the oil from the fields they "guard"" from ISIS who they own anyway. Then Japan, been occupied for nearly ever, South Korea. They even occupy part of China, as Taiwan is part of China and the US agrees with that and it is stated on their embassy website. I could full the page and more with more examples.
Are you nuts
Wow, thanks totally random citizen of the world who is definitely not at all affiliated with Executive Outcomes (tm)! It certainly sounds like no matter what the obstacle, you can always count on EO's demonstrably experienced personnel and leadership to accomplish...well, just about anything!*
Please, tell me more about the professionalism and skill of Executive-Outcomes (r) (c)!
_*(that involves mechanically murdering people)_
They quite literally didnt achieve anything, look at these countries nowadays, youre completely deluded lmaooooo
A mate worked for Sandline flying farmers out of northern Zim, got a bit hairy by all accounts.
Flying them out of Northern Zim when and why? We have never had an insurgency in Northern Zim
@@southernafricanboy4148 when the zim government started confiscation of white owned farms
Many were isolated and the only fast way to evac was by air
Cessna 206 3-4 man ground team
1 suit case each
great bit of nostalgia here, i remember watching this way back in the early 2000s and thinking the video footage was really remarkable
Amazing documentary! Thanks a lot for sharing this with us... Executive Outcomes, most efficient Agency ever!
This was a very professionally done hit piece with the usual bias, and I'm sure it will be very well received by lots of ignorant people.
Yep. It was especially funny when they were screaming about the civilian casualties. Clearly never heard of the Vietnam war or the Highway of Death when america murdered thousands of civilians
Exactly, white man bad and the locals are peaceful people going about their business, not raping women, killing their own population etc. BS.
Shut up you drip.
Eben Barlow and EO wrote the book on Private Military Companies.
Dimond MERCS would be a good book title.
Hy is tans besig met ander dinge ook en stel hom bloot....???
Executive outcomes saved a hell of a lot more lives they they took. What’s the other option, Africa fixing there issues ?
One of the big issues is Western (and more recently eastern) countries want extraction deals where they get 95+% of the profit. If the government says no, they could expect blacklisting from any banking deals, sanctions, and ultimately a coup. The next leader would be hand picked by the west. The saudis play ball, Iran doesn't. Both have rights issues, but we only have issues with one.
Ya both can be right… just Sonya know..
woah so weird how Africa can't fix their own issues when every time they try western military bases suddenly lose a bunch of weapons which suddenly shows up in the hands of some coup coronel.
so weird!
Issues created by whom? 😂😂😂😂.
So your implying seria Leone was doing great before it was saved by the west hahahahah. Do some homework
Executive Outcomes has concretely done more for advancing peace in Africa than the UN has.
True!
brotherman, they only advanced the interestes of their foreign investors, THAT is their job as a company.
i mean, i have to question the sense in comparing a private company with a multinational political body to begin with. both have fundamentally different goals.
@@pissfather6798 Sounds like a lot of cope
@@DogeickBateman have we watched the same documentary? do you even understand how private buisnesses work??
legally and as a organization, theyre beholden to shareholder profit increase and nothing else. thats their job, not "peace" lmao.
@@pissfather6798 And yet they achieved what the UN failed to do - achieve results, drive back the rebels and do it professionally. I'm not a fan of shareholder profit gouging but you strike me as the type who criticizes yet never offers a solution.
We never fought the ANC in Angola or anywhere else
Thank you for the video , you could never see this on the mainstream news, it is eaye opening , never had idea this is happening for so long.
Feel the same… it’s answered a lot of questions for me around the world.
EO would be of great use right now in SA.
SBB in Upington
....moenie voorgee jy weet nie wat aangaan nie....!!!
Would have been lovely to have had Simon Mann in this documentary. His tell all book Cry Havoc is quite informative. Finally put faces on characters in his books. Great Doccie!!
London Real did such a great interview with him. Well worth a watch.
Bizarre - Fighting against the MPLA before 94 and then due to the anc's race policies working for the MPLA after 94, crazy stuff !
Not race policies, it was political ideology that changed - ANC and MPLA were both professed commie outfits
I could not believe it when it happened ...🙈
Unita was gaining more power when Swapo left Angola
Some of us fought alongside Unita. I have respect for Unita.
Would never fight for money against them.
Shame on EO. Guess money over morals
I didn't realise David Sterling formed a proto-mercenary outfit called Capricorn. I always wondered what a man like that did after the war ended. Turns out, when the environment he excelled in evaporated, he set himself up to distill more.
Eeben Barlow is a Legend.
Much respect.
There was a point in time when SA army had the best capabilities. I am a coloured guy and watched lots of old war videos and documentaries , even met older guys who served and they told amazing stories. My best friend dad who served and left to join a private company made money off vip protection and extractions in iraq started a private security armed response unit in cape town I joined the company saved lots of lives and fell inlove with small arms and ARs now I live in Dubai 6 years and train Dubai police. I will always be thankful not to long ago in a popular beach club called barasti lol was asked by Albanian mercenaries to join them.
hint when u say your a "coloured guy " people dont really believe your a colored guy or at least I would hope not
And today you have Blackwater, Wagner, G4S, what else.. EO was the pioneers
Do G4S fights wars?
In countries like Iraq they are equipped with military grade stuff
Hire ex military and does seethe things
Boutique retailer EO compared to corporate giants
What I was thinking.
America are mercenaries too! Israel have and can manipulate them to fight/die and pay for their wars over and over
Eye opening peak behind the curtain
Yet the monarchy get away clean....
Administrative Results
God bless Executive Outcomes
Watter pielkop god?
Bring back Soldier of Fortune magazine
One of my favorite mags
there is enough right wing-thrash around, no need for "nostalgia"-ones....
@@paulmuller-hg8lpOK lefties commie
@@paulmuller-hg8lpheaven forbid sombody lived and thinks differently than you.
Yeah some of thier ideas are trash and trash people. But so is the other sides. Both red and blue are nothing but puppets for politicians..
Bye lemmming.
Say no more fuffo bunzo mash head. What about the Kardashians or Home and Away, dude. Brush up
Very good documentary, thank you.
" he was found missing" kind of contradictory don't ya think?
"Eaten by the rebels..."
But remember Britain...ThEy ArE jUsT tHe SaMe As Us...
And Venter the journalist on here is a M055 ad plant working for the same people who brought down Rhodesia, Apartheid South Africa and Britains border controls - masquerading as your "greatest ally"
Yeah just the same as us. Really. Hacking people up with machetes and boiling the pieces up in a pot for a spot of lunch ,is something we just find a horrible taboo that happens in far away lands by long lost tribes.But unfortunately it is a daily occurrence in a few countries. Gangs in Haiti are well known for eating each other. Crazy.🙏
@@MrG77 Nuclear weapons left the chat...
@@MrG77as was the norm in Liberia under General Bucknaked and friends. He ate the hearts of virgin girls before heading off to battle in the jungle.
BLACK LIVES MATTER
These guys are who Blood Diamond was based on. My username's employers.
There are sometimes valid reasons for everything, as everything has it's reasons. "The World is a Nation of Sheep. Controlled by Wolves and Owned by Pigs". 😮😅😊
"Owned by Pigs" Reminiscent of the book 'Animal Farm' modeling the joys of egalitarian communism. Where all animals are equal, but after the revolution overthrew the oppressor, the sheep discover some animals are more equal than others.
Rather reminiscent of the Marxist terrorists of the ANC, with Winnie Mansella and other ANC freedom fighters "necklacing" blacks that wouldn't fall in line after the ANC was in control delivering Marxist utopia to the now freed sheep.
"Never saw violent Marxist terrorists ever do that before!", said nobody ever.
Thank God we have you, where would we be. So many hero's on the one page
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And the CIA sip tea and sing kumbya around the campfire with all their allies …
Evil are desparate at this moment
Really weird that some TH-cam Rando would have the one and only thing pop into their head:"BBBUUUTTT... Muh CIA!"
Yeah, all the links with these groups brought in to deal with Marxist terrorists like the ANC in these former British Colonies were American - not Brits.
MI6 told the CIA to stop that American drinking coffee thing and sip tea instead?
This propaganda mocumentary was specifically made and edited to target useful Idiots like this Rando.
You sound jealous 😂😂
What did the Americans do to you? 😂😅
Them times was awesome. I remember as a young boy reading in the back of combat and survival magazine and survival leads advertisements to Gobi mercenaries in Africa. All I have to do was grow up and join the British Army which I did, and then it cancelled all the missionary stuff.😢
People which fought with UNITA turned against them for money. What a shame.
They fought with UNITA out of convenience. Savimbi wasa dyed in the wool Maoist and UNITA committed its fair share of atrocities against the Portuguese fleeing Angola. I think your "loyal" sentiments are misplaced. UNITA also had the benefit of claiming many actions that were actually SADF actions as their own successes.
UNITA was also supported by elements of MI in the Nineties so they could keep earning blood diamond money on the sly.
Conquered people join their conquerors to in turn be the foot soldiers to conquer others. Need for money and fame over honor is what makes this happen. I cannot think of a greater shame that can befall someone.
@edmundwessels2072 They supported Unita and fought in many of the same battles but not with them. Savimbi was the lessor or the two evils at the time and the relationship was one of mutual convenience at best. More like an agreement to get along with the enemy of your enemy . They were also by no means a fan of him. He might have been portrayed as this larger than life charismatic man , but the truth was that he was a power hungry ego maniac and a ruthless murdering son of bitch. Had it not been for the role of convenience or necessity he played , there were several occasions where certain high ranking military people had to be held back or even restrained from putting a bullet between his eyes because of his behavior towards his own people and on the battlefield.
@@Leec_1972 ... Not true... I was with that "MI" lot that you so conveniently malign without having been there... MI was a military organization, not a criminal cartel. Where would MI have sold these diamonds, and which of their "Bank Accounts" would they have used? How would MI have divided the loot? I worked inside of UNITA from 1977 thru 1979. Height of the involvement and at the top level. Go away and stop commenting on stuff that you wish you could have been involved in.
@@garylandman7889 You were not the only one who served in the SADF. MI acted like a criminal cartel. Why did they keep supporting UNITA after the war? Why were people connected with MI so invested in keeping the diamond fields under UNITA hands in secret AFTER the war ended?
Yes they did act like a criminal cartel and they went to great lengths to destroy those that tried to stop it. Look at Angola since your buddies have not been ravaging the place and recruiting child sildiers.
How do you know where I was or where I wasn't.
Jonas Savimbi was an avowed Maois who p on a Chrisian facade to fool people like you and yes UNITA was inviolved in atrocities against the Portuguese.
So you can "go away".
2:55 Great information.
Another great example of the efficiency and efficacy of the private sector vs. government.
24:01 Fuel Air bombs apparently having a fatal radius of 2km? Maybe just a bit overstated, but this propaganda, shouldn't be surprised.
Yes he is talking BS.
The Soviet era ODAB-1500 fuel air thermometric bomb - used in Ukraine in 2024; has a radius of ~150 meters, weight 1.5 TONS. Above exist the FOAB - tested once by Russia in 2007, but no data about this effective range is know.
EO was dissolved in 1998. This documentary is ancient.
the date in the title is indicative of that - but insightful comment
Eeben Barlow, the original founder of EO, has reformed them. Last year.
Wow. What a braindead comment. Journeyman always posts older documentaries. It's not meant to be a current affairs channel, you ding dong.
Are you this stupid or is this an act you put on for yt?
maybe i'd like to watch a documentary from 1997!
i love that old win95 interface, what a website huh... 45:00
I’ve always found that once I lost a testicle or a foot, it took the fight right out of me.
How many of those can you lose really? 🙄
@@JohnGeometresMaximos couple. But they sure stop ya and your fighting spirit.
for me it was nipple
I sacrificed my gonads when I got married
Simon -weer avou now??Jberg???/London???2024 -DRC/CAR/S
Who is asking?
Excellent insight,
People want to complain about EO, but these same people supported Black Water. EO and companies like them are doing a great service, they are doing what governments and civilians can't stomach.
No way... can't you see how far SA has come. But seriously the stories white Africans have after basically escaping to countries like NZ is horrific.
When you bend over for the oil execs, do they use lube?
@@quintinsmith5400 you do realize that if western countries can't exploit the resources of African countries, they sabotage them in myriad ways to get them destabilized to get more amenable leadership. The video literally showed mercenaries killing to get mines back for to western controlled puppet governments rather than the local population. When you hear the term "rebel fighter", it often means person that doesn't want resources stolen from the country.
@@quintinsmith5400Yes, explain how much better SA is now since the ANC Marxist terrorists came to power and turned Winnie Mandela loose to "necklace" blacks who wouldn't get with the ANC program. How the common man is now safer and better off economically.
And why both black and white professionals continue to flee the Marxist mecca that the ANC has made it.
This should be good!
They have now become executive security solutions and they state they are not soldiers for hire anymore
Informative
I just started and already love how this guys accent over-charges AI subtitle generation at 0:31, turning "I was flying a (Boeing) 727 jet out of..." into something like "I was flying 7 to 7 shit out of...".
Later I came to learn about the Polish government of Angola. ;-D
I love how its basically the plot of "Dogs of War"
Offices in the same building but no connection. Yeah right😂😂
Wait until Adminstrative Results discovers this video.
He will probably watch 10 times until Sunday.
Right😂
If you've never read Major General Smedley Butler's (USMC) timeless essay "War is a Racket", yo OWE it to yourself to read it. Semper Fidelis
Old outdated docu....And why has EO never received any credit for the good they have done????
Surely because they pissed alot of people that used to profit from the Angola war
Because government are become woke and weak and Leading UN .
They do, that's what the Angolan and Liberian money was.
Thanks for half the story
Journeyman pictures pushing a propaganda narrative .
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Nothing about their great success in 2015 against Boko Haram in Nigeria...
yeah nigga it was made in 1997 fuck are you talking about
The film from 1997 doesn't talk about 2015?
Are you stupid? This documentary is from the 90s
Of course not. This documentary is from 1997.
@@kutter_ttl6786 just a minor detail 😂
When the world is crumbling against evil..as it is now..people could only dream of having people like this in their corner!!
They dont work for people, they only work for the highest bidder. Large corporations have caused the world we live in to be so "evil". How can you say thyat these are the people we should turn to for salvation?
this comment is either very stupid or i'm missing something. the point of a mercenary force is that they have no morals or allegiance!!! as other guy said, they work for the highest bidder. these are the last guys id want to have at my side (even though im sure their very well trained and capable and decent guys in their own right)
We know. The red team has them and so blue team must have them also.
And so...
Here we are.
@@nospoon4799 not entirely true. If the world around you is falling apart and your own government cannot protect you and is in danger of being overrun as well and makes a call to a company thousands of kilometers away and that has nothing to do with either you or your country or your troubles and your own government and its army and police that are there to protect you cannot help you then what options do you have ? Are you going to point a finger and judge the people that hear your cry for help and say they are willing to travel thousand of kilometers with all their equipment and manpower to come and do a job you and your government cannot do but for a price? A price which your government is willing to pay for the acquisition of these man and there entire operation and everything that goes with it and comes along with it including them having to give up their lives if need be or stand the chance of loosing their lives . Those governments paid in the only currency they had available , a currency which very likely would have been taken by the same people that threatened your livelihood and well-being as well as that of your country . More often than not this company had to finance their entire setup and move from country A to B with the only deposit or upfront payment so to say being in the form of an agreement or deal in the form of a mining concession on good faith once the shit had been sorted out and removed so that peace and some form of normality could prevail and people could go back to their homes and try to rebuild their lives. EO was a business and they ran it very efficiently and professionally. Trust me, when things go south and your world turns upside down and your life becomes a living shit show and a fight for survival , these are the type of people you want around you and working for you . Way more efficient than the UN ,way more effective and at a fraction of the cost by a mile. Also as far as morals go , they only worked for governments that were legally elected , no dictators or self imposed rulers or those put in place to rule as puppets for foreign masters and their interests just like the US does as well as a few other countries in the EU I could mention. You like pretty much everyone else out there wouldn’t work for free, why on earth would you expect them to work for free and at the risk of them loosing their own lives in another country fixing up someone else mess and problems. Their charity was that they were prepared to come and do the job that nobody else was willing or prepared to do , never mind capable of doing.
@@archiemercer5499 not entirely true. If the world around you is falling apart and your own government cannot protect you and is in danger of being overrun as well and makes a call to a company thousands of kilometers away and that has nothing to do with either you or your country or your troubles and your own government and its army and police that are there to protect you cannot help you then what options do you have ? Are you going to point a finger and judge the people that hear your cry for help and say they are willing to travel thousand of kilometers with all their equipment and manpower to come and do a job you and your government cannot do but for a price? A price which your government is willing to pay for the acquisition of these man and there entire operation and everything that goes with it and comes along with it including them having to give up their lives if need be or stand the chance of loosing their lives . Those governments paid in the only currency they had available , a currency which very likely would have been taken by the same people that threatened your livelihood and well-being as well as that of your country . More often than not this company had to finance their entire setup and move from country A to B with the only deposit or upfront payment so to say being in the form of an agreement or deal in the form of a mining concession on good faith once the shit had been sorted out and removed so that peace and some form of normality could prevail and people could go back to their homes and try to rebuild their lives. EO was a business and they ran it very efficiently and professionally. Trust me, when things go south and your world turns upside down and your life becomes a living shit show and a fight for survival , these are the type of people you want around you and working for you . Way more efficient than the UN ,way more effective and at a fraction of the cost by a mile. Also as far as morals go , they only worked for governments that were legally elected , no dictators or self imposed rulers or those put in place to rule as puppets for foreign masters and their interests just like the US does as well as a few other countries in the EU I could mention. You like pretty much everyone else out there wouldn’t work for free, why on earth would you expect them to work for free and at the risk of them loosing their own lives in another country fixing up someone else mess and problems. Their charity was that they were prepared to come and do the job that nobody else was willing or prepared to do , never mind capable of doing.
16:48 ‘Business is business’. Cold blooded
I spent over 30 years in the US Army (8 enlisted, 24 commissioned officer.) Air orne Infantry (Rangers,) Special Forces. 5 years and 8 months total "official" combat time. Wounded about a dozen times and seriously injured a few times in training incidents; a number of Rangers and SF guys get badly injured and killed every year. Same with top-level special operations units in France, the UK, Australia, or New Zealand.
I've run into EO people a number of times. WE never worked in ANYTHING connected to them that I know of, or ever heard about.
BUT. From early 1993 to Jan 2000, under Clinton, we were DENIED going to a LOT of "troubled" countries and training their forces. Which is a big part of our larger Mission. SO, EO and some other private firms went in, since we weren't allowed.
This also coincided with the FLOOD of civil wars and insurgencies in Africa and other places.
FORTUNATELY, when George W came in, we continued our authorized missions.
EO, Sandline, or whatever they call themselves are well-trained and very capable.
If there's a need, with high returns, I don't blame them. As long as they follow the rules and stay within their remit, more power to them.
This is ancient history...
Executive outcomes is NO MORE RUTHLESS THAN THEIR ADVERSARIES. THE GUYS THEYRE FIGHTING HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND IF YOU THINK THE GUYS THEYRE FIGHTING TAKE ANY PRISONERS THEN YOUR LIVING IN FAIRY LAND. E. O. IS CLEANING OUT POCKETS OF RUTHLESS COMBATANTS AND SHOULD BE JUST LEFT ALONE TO RISK THEIR ALL IN THEIR SERVICE...
FO!! One evil doesn't solve another. Evil is evil. These mercs are evil!
Go back to facebook with your deranged all caps criminal colonial apologetics.
@@kumarj4693 Both parties ELECT to FIGHT so keep it down, living in your parents basement. You might just wake them with you informative( lol) rant...
Correct.
@@kumarj4693 You have obviously never met the "other side" in combat. Don't be so naive.
Very interesting report, this is before the iraqi invasion when private security companies came at the forefront, when they were shown as "rockstars", "cool" dudes who they've tried to give them an aura of gentlemen.
What was the song in the beginning
From an insider, this "documentary" omits much crucial information and is inflammatory. EO did much good and did it well.
Journey man documentaries always biased and pushing a narrative and agenda for someone . Sadly when funded by a group that has an agenda it’s what usually happens . There are so many good documentaries on EO, this one is probably one of the worst I’ve seen.
I'm sure you really did good things and won't go to hell
@@GiantstalkingI'm sure the Marxist terrorist revolutionaries like the ANC made life better in South Africa with their "necklacing" of blacks that didn't get with the program after they came to power.
Equally likely that as Marxists, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, they're all cult members of The Rock Fairy Religion Of Atheism... therefore, no worries about going to hell for terrorist acts, because it doesn't exist.
Sorry, but what "crucial information" can lighten the image about a company that murdered, tortured and pillaged?
@@whynotjustmyusername How about crucial information that there's no mention that these groups were primarily there in the first place due to the murder, torture, and pillaging of Marxist terrorists like the ANC?
Oh wait... you didn't know all these terrorist "freedom fighters" are exactly like Hamas and Hezbollah - including killing more of their people for not getting with the program than they do the "enemy"?
You pay this kind of money to hire armed security with experience fighting terrorists because your problem is people blocking the sidewalks in front of your offices? Picketing stores selling your products?
Look at Europe now and think.
South African Army never fought ANC, SHITTY INFORMATION!!
@Juan_van_Eeden Obviously more than you!
@Juan_van_Eeden So gedink☝️🤣
@Juan_van_Eeden Google bewys jou ook as 'n oningeligte!!
@Juan_van_Eeden
Erm .... some of us served .... so rather shush and let the adults talk about stuff they did.
@Juan_van_Eeden
Lag vir jou gat en bid vir jou siel, jou pampoen.
Madlads, all of them!
Having spent the last 2 decades with so-called SA SF on the circuit...I can honestly say...if that's your best then I'd hate to see your worst
Get over yourself Rambo. You will never make it in an African conflict. No killing Jihadist's in robes and AK's. Did you not take anything from this film? You're a narcissist.
The real Diamond Dogs.
So the Bougainvillea situation still isn't resolved in 2024. The events here happened right after a civil war that cost 15,000-20,000 lives. Fortunately the fighting has mostly ceased since the civil war.
Executive Outcomes was formed in 1989 some of the clips you are showing were shot in 1984?
They are showing some footage of what these guys did previously.
Im sorry lady, but mercenaries are ALL killers!.. You cannot be a merc without having the heart to kill..
These guys would’ve saved South Africa and rhodesia. South Africa now is a hellhole
i knew a guy in australia involved in the drug trade back in the 90s. they used to run guns to the bouganville rebels, easy to get here back then from the east. they traded the guns for the marijuana they grew. some then took the money from the pot sales back in aus and spun it in thailand for heroin which is how i met him. when you're looking at a profit of $490 per gram at street level or less for bulk but still very profitable when you only pay $10 per gram at its source.
What’s the song that’s played during the home video scene?
A lot of conflicting and biased reporting. And the major question would be why now after almost 25 years, this is also old footage portraid as recent, something seriously is brewing!!
This documentary is decades old, what are you on about? Journeyman Pictures posts many old documentaries. You need some media literacy, mate.
I'm guessing you didn't bother to look at the title and see the "1997" in brackets?
nope
nothing "seriously is brewing" you are just illiterate
Portrayed as recent? You need to learn your history my little friend......
Now it’s Wagner and Blackrock….
This reminds me of pbs docu in the 90s
RIP Jan Breytenbach
I went to do work in the Rutile mine in Sierra Leone 2010, the locals spoke with high respect of the soldier's of EO.Pproud to be SouthAfrican
It's a bloody shame what's happening to SA.
BS!!
Bush wars against the ANC? Didn't know the ANC did much bush fighting. Most of that was against Cubans, SWAPO and the Angolan govt forces/
MARK STUCKE hello there, this is someone you got into trouble with, going under our school and ended up barricaded under there until we started to spray water back at them. I've the same first name as your brother. I heard of you from Mark Whanga -or Whetu as he was better known. Anyway it would be great to make some contact if you manage to find this. So here's hoping then, cheers
I've never seen a BM-21 grad launch all it's missiles at once. I didn't think it was possible. But like isn't it more effective? al missiles will land at the same time? I am seeing this wrong at 3:50 ?
The operator can choose how many rockets are fired in each salvo, ranging from a single rocket to all 40.
@@nikanor8152 ok but should he?
If you are not in the financial market space right now, you are making a huge mistake. I understand that it could be due to ignorance, but if you want to make your money work for you...prevent inflation
Please! Tell us how!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fighting Unita proves EO chose the wrong side, of which the West supplied/supported Savimbi in the 80's
Wow...this is one of the biggest hit jobs ever....
Some seriously biased reporting on your part... some things are necessary...
Hey, this is exactly Wagner's business model!
100% Wagner PMC prigozhin business 😂
Same with Academi ( formerly known as Black Water).
Respect for those who served and still continue to do so.
From fighting alongside UNITA to fighting against UNITA.
John Liebenberg....many memories.....😢😢😢
What happened to that subtitle?
Met a couple...had to ask if they had worked for EO
Evil will not survive this time.
Everyone forgets BSAP PATU
A necessity still yet
th-cam.com/video/t9kcGVsVVVY/w-d-xo.html
"This remarkable video diary made by one of the mercenaries in Angola, shows the reality of how hey behave in the field."
My God, soldiers talking like...
soldiers?!
Say it isn't so!
What monsters they were for talking like absolutely anyone would in that position!
I do apologise, war is a deadly serious topic. However, if you want to lighten up, switch on the generated captions around 0:20 and pay attention at ~0:32
Not that i cannot understand the accent, as a non-native anglophone i pretty much can. But i like to imagine this is a "Mock the week" game "What he really thinks". You can't unhear it..
Executive Outcome was the inspiration for the military management game, Jagged Alliance. Even the motto quite different but the operation mission was the same. Think of Mission Impossible but operatives in Africa.