In today's world, there are mercenaries in many countries. Israel has the most skilled mercenaries, which can be said to be all over the world. The United States also has a large number of mercenaries, and has established professional mercenary companies. The main markets are in Saudi Arabia and Angola. Simply put, mercenaries are a very special profession. Their main task is to participate in armed struggle to make money. The source of mercenaries is more complicated. Generally speaking, they are all veterans. Special forces, pilots, and marines are more popular among mercenaries. Mercenaries are generally selected through assessment, and as long as they pass the assessment, they can become a mercenary. The development history of
mercenaries is relatively long. Since ancient Greece, there has been a group of war and adventure occupations. In the early nineteenth century, Britain used a large number of mercenaries to fight in foreign colonization and expansion. In the last century, the United States Mercenaries were also used in some special military operations. Nowadays, mercenaries are often seen in conflict-intensive areas of the world. These people can fight like an army when they fight, and they appear as companies when they conduct business cooperation, and they are now frequently employed by governments and interest groups. In this way, both the government and interest groups can avoid the trouble of showing up in person, and if something goes wrong, they often don’t take responsibility. The large-scale development of
mercenaries today is still inseparable from the huge economic temptation. Before the 1980s, mercenaries mainly acted in the form of individuals or small groups, participating in various acts such as coups, assassinations, and plundering, leaving a bad impression on countries around the world. However, beginning in the 1990s, mercenaries began to gradually transform. First, the mercenaries developed a group company. Second, they began to establish cooperative relations with the government and the country. Both the number of people and the scope of business were expanded.
Nowadays, mercenaries have become part of the war economy. Every year these mercenary groups or intermediary companies can get contracts worth tens of billions of dollars from the Pentagon. The average daily salary of American mercenaries in Iraq can reach 1,000 U.S. dollars. In addition to high salaries, mercenaries also have a high personal insurance premium. For veterans from all over the world, the profession of mercenaries It is so attractive that even the US military is jealous. The model of
, a mercenary group, reveals unlimited business opportunities. As the US foreign war continues to develop towards privatization and outsourcing, some people believe that mercenaries may even become one of the main participants in future wars. However, there are many doubts about mercenaries. The society's supervision of mercenaries is far from enough. Not only has scandals continued, it has also posed a great threat to weak countries. In the future, it will take time to judge the development direction of private military companies such as mercenaries.
