Between the Merc main book, Bangkok, Special Operations and the Gazetteer there was a really good mix of locations, equipment and missions that could be used/undertaken.
Plus M2k had rules for acquiring patrons and renown as well as expansion on parachuting while Special Operations expanded the options for melee combat as well as clarified rules regarding the 3-rd burst option found on the M16A2 and G11.
The Gazetteer was generally good but let down by a lack of research in some cases. For example Australia is listed as using the L85 and L86 but we never gave serious consideration to adopting them for service, (even at the time the Gazetteer was written it would have been relatively easy to find out that the main contenders were the M16A2 and the AUG).
The L7A1 was a reasonably accurate guess (we adopted the MAG58 rather than the British L7 version of it) but overall, it appears that the writer of that section didn't bother to do any research and instead believed Australia would just adopt whatever the British were using.
The section dealing with Indonesia has a similar lack of research, assuming they would be using the AK-74 when a little research would reveal that Indonesia had a healthy small arms industry and produced a number of their own designs as well as local copies of European designs. The Indonesian forces while not against acquiring WarPac/Soviet/ChiCom vehicles, aircraft and heavy weapons, have traditionally eschewed small arms from those nations and used North American and Europe small arms instead.
As for Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, it won't likely ever get a reprint as it was licenced from Mark Schultz and there's been no desire to re-acquire the licence (I emailed Marc Miller some years ago about it and that's the gist of what he said). Which means it won't be available anytime soon as a PDF on DriveThruRPG (and most likely never).
The best you can do is locate a second-hand copy or find someone who will do a scan for you.
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