الله@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago‘Disposable’ operatives for hire are a new menace for western countrieswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down13
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minus-squareRat_in_a_hat@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 hours agoMercenaries are definitely not all professionals - who do you think are the boots on the ground for all the proxy wars happening today? Turkey and Russia were flying out Syrian mercenaries to north Africa to fight each other over Libya. It’s extensively published in military research papers that guns for hire (mercenaries) are becoming much more ubiquitous in today’s proxy wars.
minus-squareInternationalHermit@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoLook up the definition of professional in the dictionary. If you get paid for a job, your are a professional. Level of experience or skill is not part of the definition.
minus-squareRat_in_a_hat@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 hours agoI think the key term being used is “mercenary” though
Mercenaries are definitely not all professionals - who do you think are the boots on the ground for all the proxy wars happening today?
Turkey and Russia were flying out Syrian mercenaries to north Africa to fight each other over Libya.
It’s extensively published in military research papers that guns for hire (mercenaries) are becoming much more ubiquitous in today’s proxy wars.
Look up the definition of professional in the dictionary. If you get paid for a job, your are a professional. Level of experience or skill is not part of the definition.
I think the key term being used is “mercenary” though