Your population size seems awefully large. 900,000 is Fiji large. I doubt any PMC could overthrow Fiji with out internal support. All countries that size have conciderable police and armed forces.

 

 Countries of 100,000 are far less organised.

 

Money could come from a varity of sources. Other pacific nations who want to interfer, UN votes (Taiwan is willing to hand out money to be recongised as a nation, Japan has apparently paid for whale support), Other governments who want to stabilise the region etc. Look up sandline and PNG. Mining/resorce concerns etc.  

I won't go into all the details, but Fiji recently underwent a coup in late 2006.  You can do the research, but here is one article published early in the campaign.

 

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Okay, revising it a little bit, we'll say population is about 200,000. The PMC groups is using LIT tactics to try to gain the peoples support. LIT= Low Intesity Terrorism. (LIT is terrorsim without the deaths, it causes a substantail lowering in the wuality of life of the civilians in the country, I.E. Chuck a satchel charge into a transformer station, then destroy the transformer repair equipment, destroy sewage processing facilities etc.)

 

SO here is what i have in a quick rundown.

 

PMC create a terrorist group not associated with them to do these LIT attacks

 

PMC moves an office into the country, justl ike any other buisness would

 

LIT attacks continue under the name of the terrorist group, civilians getting annoyed that there goverment cannot handel the attacks

 

PMC gains popular support by helping repair LIT damage, and donating money and suplies to victims of the LIT (I.E.  food, and back-up generators to the pople effected by the transformer being taken out)

 

LIT terrorists attack the Parliment of the country, the PMC moves to counter them. The Prime minister and most of the cabnit is either kidnapped, killed, or injured.

 

PMC takes "temporary" control and are able to stop the LIT attacks and destroy the terrorist group, civilian population is relieved and happy.

 

PMC makes changes in govemrent structure, creating a Democratic monarchy, placing the PMC leader as the permanent head of state, the Legislative and judicial branches remain democratic.

 

Then as an after thought the PMC helps to grow the place economicly through similar economic tactics used by Dubai.

 

 

You might want to check out Fredrick Forsythe's The Dogs of War.  He covers all those bases.  You also might want to look up Bob Denard.  He was a French mercenary that carried out a coup in the Comorros Islands in the late 70s.  There have been few successful coups of this type because European powers tend to step in. 

OKay well the novel is comming along nicely, one part i do not like asm uch and i'm wondeirng if any of you have any ideas: Where do troops needed for the coup come from ? (Obviosly ex-military but how are they recuited) and Who (which ex-armed forces) are most likely ot be interested in beign part of a coup for the promises of power, money and land ?