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Hace 2 días · A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, 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.
Hace 3 días · In his Anabasis, the ancient Greek mercenary soldier, philosopher, and historian Xenophon recounted an occasion when one of his comrades in arms returned with a bundle of food. The description provides a glimpse at what ancient Greek soldiers might have eaten on the move.
Hace 2 días · Soldiers are bound by an “obligation to die”, in the words of philosopher Cheyney Ryan, or at least a duty of obedience unto death. Sociologists have long studied the civil-military gap ...
Hace 3 días · After the Greeks turned back the Persians and ruined themselves in their internecine wars (most notably the Peloponnesian War), they exported mercenary soldiers. Xenophon’s Anabasis is the story of the march (401–400 bce) of 10,000 Greek mercenary soldiers from near Babylon to the Black Sea.
Hace 1 día · In other words, when soldiers sacrifice their lives or their limbs, they do it, usually, for their fellows-in-arms, not for their institution or their flag or for the people back home. This explains why even members of profit-driven mercenary groups, or “private military contractors”, are often just as willing to make the ultimate sacrifice as national servicemen and women.
Hace 2 días · Commentary. Attara, Dakka Sebbe, Nienanpela, Dioura, and Ouro Fer — these five Malian towns saw elders murdered, civilians tortured, and property looted by the Wagner Group in January and February of 2024. And they are not isolated cases. Across the Sahel, the Wagner Group and the Africa Corps perpetrate massacres, rape, torture, and ...
Hace 3 días · The first phase from 1618 until 1635 was primarily a civil war between German members of the Holy Roman Empire, with support from external powers. After 1635, the empire became one theatre in a wider struggle between France, supported by Sweden, and Emperor Ferdinand III, allied with Spain.
