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    Mercenaries. A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war. A mercenary is any person who: (a) is especially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; (b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities;

  2. A mercenary is a private military contractor working as either protection personnel or for a foreign army or militia. Mercenaries typically have no political, religious, or cultural affiliation to their employer and are paid to simply use their military skills for monetary gain.

  3. Dec 4, 2019 · Four hours. No Americans were killed, and the Department of Defense (DOD) touted this as a big win. But it wasn’t. It took America’s most elite troops and advanced aircraft 4 hours to repel 500 mercenaries. What happens when they have to face 1,000? 5,000? More? Mercenaries are more powerful than experts realize, a grave oversight.

  4. Aug 17, 2024 · Mercenary, hired professional soldier who fights for any state or nation without regard to political interests or issues. From the earliest days of organized warfare until the development of political standing armies in the mid-17th century, governments frequently supplemented their military forces.

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  5. Mar 25, 2015 · The use of mercenaries in warfare has a very long history—much longer, in fact, than the almost-exclusive deployment of national militaries to wage wars.

  6. There have been mercenary armies throughout history—men who received compensation from a ruler to fight battles. Examples include “The Mighty Ten Thousand,” which Xenophon describes as the Greek soldiers hired into service around 400 B.C. by Cyrus the Younger to dislodge his brother, King Artaxerxes II, who ruled Persia.

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  8. The Mercenary: Directed by Sergio Corbucci. With Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Franco Giacobini, Eduardo Fajardo. A greedy Polish mercenary helps a mine worker and a peasant girl lead a revolution against the Mexican Government, all while being pursued by an American rival.