Mercenaries and War: Understanding Private Armies Today

by National Defense University Press and Sean McFate

Mercenaries are more powerful than experts realize, a grave oversight. Those who assume they are cheap imitations of national armed forces invite disaster because for-profit warriors are a wholly different genus and species of fighter. Private military companies such as the Wagner Group are more like heavily armed multinational corporations than the Marine Corps. Their employees are recruited from different countries, and profitability is everything...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1678665231
• ISBN13: 9781678665234
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"