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French soldier and mercenary who fought in the Algerian War, Cambodian Civil War and the Lebanese Civil War. Rolf Steiner: 1933– 1950–1971 France OAS Biafra Anyanya: Soldier of fortune who led the 4th Commando Brigade in the Biafran Army during the Nigerian Civil War, and later served with the Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan. / / Mike ...
Name HQ Portfolio Notes Aegis Defence Services: London: Iraq, Afghanistan, and others: Contracted by the U.S. department of Defense during the most recent War in Iraq. Aegis Defence Services Ltd was acquired by GardaWorld International Protective Services.
Bright Star (1981) — American exercise to reinforce allies in the middle east. Chaperon — Canada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer to the United Nation Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP). Celesta — Australian naval surveillance in Australia's southern waters against illegal fishing.
Driving home late at night, Nosaiba Drera's heart beat faster when the soldiers waved at her to pull over. A doctor on her way home from a busy evening shift in Libya's capital, Tripoli, Drera was ...
March 26, 2009 – Hungarian, Tibor Bogdan was killed by U.S. soldier near Camp Taji, north of Baghdad [112] May 15, 2009 – Briton, name unknown, was killed by a roadside bomb in Hilla. He was working as a PMC. [113] May 22, 2009 – American, Jim Kitterman, was stabbed and killed by fellow contractors in the Green Zone in Baghdad. He was ...
Mercenary units and formations of antiquity (2 C, 15 P) Mercenary units and formations of the Early Modern era (5 C, 15 P) Mercenary units and formations of the Middle Ages (3 C, 25 P)
David Stirling, founder of the SAS, founded a PMC in the 1960s.. Modern PMCs trace their origins back to a group of ex-SAS veterans in 1965 who, under the leadership of the founder of the SAS, David Stirling and John Woodhouse, founded WatchGuard International (formerly with offices in Sloane Street before moving to South Audley Street in Mayfair) as a private company that could be contracted ...
The mercenary soldiers thus fell out of favour and was replaced by the professional soldier. To augment the army, major European powers like France, Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain contracted regiments from Switzerland, the Southern Netherlands (modern day Belgium), and several smaller German states.