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(a) Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; (b) Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar rank and functions in the armed forces of that party;
A mercenary is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
English mercenary who fought in France, Ireland and Morocco. Simon Harcourt: 1603–1642 1619–1636 Netherlands: English soldier of fortune in the service of the Prince of Orange. John Ruthven: 1627–1638 Denmark Sweden: Scottish military officer who served in Denmark and Sweden during the Thirty Years' War. Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth
English Shadow Company is a documentary directed by Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque and narrated by Gerard Butler . It is an introduction to the mercenary and private military company industry, concentrating on the role the industry has been playing in recent conflicts.
Mercenary is an adjective meaning "motivated by private gain". It is also a noun: a mercenary is a person primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics, most often used to refer to a soldier who fights for hire.
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[20] [21] (Thus the obsolete English-language term "bezonian" may mean "raw recruit" or "pauper". [22]) After the US suspended conscription in 1973, "the military disproportionately attracted African American men, men from lower-status socioeconomic backgrounds, men who had been in nonacademic high school programs, and men whose high school ...
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