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Feb 4, 2019 · Better Control of Borders, Private Security Firms Key to Stopping ‘Guns for Hire’, Speakers Say at Security Council Debate on Mercenary Activities in Africa. From illicit trafficking in the...
Mar 6, 2023 · Since then, the Wagner mercenaries have been deployed as guns for hire in the Middle East, Africa and even Latin America. They are used by authoritarian governments to hunt down rebels and...
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Mar 31, 2021 · Posted 31 March 2021. Download Complete Forecast: PDF. Print. Share. In Hindsight: Guns for Hire—The Security Council and Mercenarism. Mercenaries, the proverbial soldiers of fortune, have been part of conflict for almost as long as conflict has existed.
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Outside conventional armed forces, there are international companies which attract former special forces operators and soldiers to their ranks in order to sell military skills. Its described the same way as a corporation might sell its services in the field of oil exploration, civil engineering, etc. Today, these services and companies are not unkn...
For the professional mercenaries, the post-Cold War world provides plenty of potential customers, from deposed rulers and governments to businesses needing protection from organized crime, to the organized criminals themselves looking to recruit military support to protect drug factories and the like against security forces and rival gangs alike. T...
Back in the 1960s and 70s, mercenary companies and various organizations advertised openly to recruit former Special Forces personnel for ‘interesting work abroad’ – such as the bloody wars in Biafra, Angola and the Congo. Today recruiting is quite different, no more mass advertising, not it is a word-of-mouth affair, with recruiters approaching fo...
There are many more ‘wannabe’ mercenaries than real mercenary jobs. Most of the wannabes are totally unsuited to life – even those who have some military training. Mercenary soldiering is not something you should go into because you can’t think of any other way of earning a living after leaving the army. Some do it for the money, some because they ...
Policy Brief. Private Military and Security Companies: A New Form of Mercenarism? By Nihal El Mquirmi. PB - 08/22. “Hiring outsiders to fight your battles is as old as war itself”. Peter W. Singer (2011) Mercenaries, private contractors, soldiers of fortune, dogs of war, guns for hire, war lords ...
Jul 18, 2023 · Guns for hire: a season for mercenaries - Asia Times. From Ukraine to Africa and beyond, ‘soldiers of fortune’ abound. by Thalif Deen July 18, 2023. Wagner private army soldiers in Mali. Photo: Modern War Institute.
Oct 2, 2007 · Every single media source led with the episode in the days that followed, focusing on how the U.S. could hire such “arrogant trigger-happy guns for hire, mercenaries by any other name,” as...
