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The West Side Boys: military navigation in the Sierra Leone civil war / Utas, Mats; Jörgel, Magnus   Journal Article
Utas, Mats Journal Article
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Publication 2008.
Summary/Abstract The West Side Boys were one of several military actors in the Sierra Leonean civil war (1991-2002). A splinter group of the army, the WSB emerged as a key player in 1999-2000. In most Western media accounts, the WSB appeared as nothing more than renegade, anarchistic bandits, devoid of any trace of long-term goals. By contrast, this article aims to explain how the WSB used well-devised military techniques in the field; how their history and military training within the Sierra Leone army shaped their notion of themselves and their view of what they were trying to accomplish; and, finally, how military commanders and politicians employed the WSB as a tactical instrument in a larger map of military and political strategies. It is in the politics of a military economy that this article is grounded
Key Words Military  Navigation  Six Day War  West Side Boys  Sierra  Leone 
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