• bobman@unilem.org
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    1 year ago

    Mercenaries have no allegiance to anybody.

    I mean, that’s not entirely true. Some mercenaries actually have allegiance to their companies and really care about their goals.

    You’d actually be way more accurate talking about soldiers in the state’s military than mercenaries.

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      1 year ago

      This is historically ignorant. Before professional armies, mercenaries would literally have their camps set up in a country that hired them, only to turn and ransack a nearby town after an enemy spy came in and paid them more to do it. Western society literally invented professional armies because of mercenaries.