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re: Were PMC’s in Africa during the Cold War good guys or bad?
Posted on 1/24/25 at 6:07 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Posted on 1/24/25 at 6:07 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
Executive outcomes is back in business as well. Got the band back together in 2020.
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Posted on 1/24/25 at 6:13 pm to MattA
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:43 pm to Shut Up Mulllet
It's a great song. Warren Zevon is underrated
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:17 pm to rltiger
Dogs of War
Posted on 1/24/25 at 9:34 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
I used to know a guy who was a mercenary soldier in Rhodesia back in the day. When he returned to the United States, he killed a guy during a fight and went to prison.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:55 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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that perspective but that the same time many of these guys were soldiers forged in world war 2 who had a set of skills that led them in that direction. If you have a service that is valuable and can make you lots of money why not provide said service?
So a hit man is ok?
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:57 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Does anyone here have more info on what these mercenary groups were really up to back then?
My grandmother's cousin was a mercenary fighting commies back then. Got captured his first week there and was executed after trial. Chevy Chase made a joke about him on SNL.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 7:59 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
I actually wrote a big paper on them back in college. I remember a big takeaway being that they were used by multi national corporations to protect oil/mineral interests, and in a way conducted small scale warfare while those MNC’s partnered with corrupt officials to strip Africa of what little natural wealth available.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 8:02 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
They are often much more efficient than the traditional army as well. It sucks what the government did to Blackwater and those guys that were on trial.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 8:09 am to Jim Rockford
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American Daniel Gearhart was sentenced to death for advertising himself as a mercenary in an American newspaper.
My grandmother's cousin.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 9:33 am to LSU Grad Alabama Fan
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LSU Grad Alabama Fan
Does not compute.
Posted on 1/25/25 at 9:40 am to FightinTigersDammit
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That son-of-a-bitch van Owen...
Posted on 1/25/25 at 9:52 am to ninthward
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They were fighting communists insurgents.
Communists we're just a Boogeyman for Cold War governments to do nefarious shite
Posted on 1/25/25 at 9:56 am to Galactic Inquisitor
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Communists we're just a Boogeyman for Cold War governments to do nefarious shite
Oh
Posted on 1/25/25 at 9:57 am to GhostofJackson
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Does not compute.
Can someone not get a graduate degree at a school they didn't grow up a fan of?
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