Hammer's Slammers

Hammer's Slammers - Repackaged. The contents of the first five books of the main series were repackaged and republished, with some additional stories. Drake has said that this is his preferred order and edition. The Tank Lords (1997) Caught In The Crossfire (1998) The Butcher's Bill (1998) The Complete Hammer's Slammers (2005) is a one-volume edition of the above. ...

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David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is a successful author of science fiction and fantasy literature. He is one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre. In addition to his own works, he also often contributes the military angle to many collaborative works. His co-authors include Karl Edward Wagner, Janet Morris, S.M. Stirling, and Eric Flint. His best-known non-collaborative work is the Hammer's Slammers series of military science fiction. He also contributed outlines to the Belisarius series se ...

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See also laws of war. In the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions (GC) of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 it is stated: Art 47. Mercenaries A mercenary is any person who: (a)  is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; (b)  does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities; (c)  is ...

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At its best (as in, for example, Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers or Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan novels), military SF examines hard questions about the ethics of violence, individuality versus collectivity, and the relationship between the military and its society. At its worst, military SF becomes simple carnography (pornography of violence). Frequently, the conflict is assumed to be inevitable (humans vs. aliens, democracies vs. dictatorships, etc.), and the military approach is not questioned. (Howeve ...

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Defining authors of the genre include: Robert A. Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers, among other books. David Drake, author of the Hammer's Slammers series and other works; Jerry Pournelle, author of A Spaceship for the King, Falkenberg's Legion and the Janissaries series; John Ringo, author of the Legacy of the Aldenata, Empire of Man, and The Council Wars series; S. M. Stirling, author of The General series, and the Draka series; David Weber, ...

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It is known that mercenaries have been hired to fight in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Many of these were ex-Eastern Bloc soldiers who had no employment opportunities after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mercenary - Private military company PMC. Private military companies are companies that provide logistics, manpower, and other expenditures for a military force. Their contractors are civil ...

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A growing tendency in military SF, largely due to the conservative authors who have dominated the genre in recent years, is to portray democratic government with a certain level of contempt, as bloated, corrupt, inefficient and openly antagonistic to its military protectors (who as the protagonists are typically portrayed as good and noble) and liberals exclusively as out-of-touch ivory tower academics and idealists who must invariably be protected from themselves. Some works in the genre openly admit they have been written to transport cert ...

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Perhaps the first works of modern Military SF were H. Beam Piper's Uller Uprising (1952) (based on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny) and the same author's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (1965). Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) is another pivotal early work of Military SF, and mostly responsible for spreading this sub-genre's popularity to young readers of the time. The start of Military SF as a recognized sub-genre might be placed at the publication of Combat SF (ISBN 0441115314, edited by Gordo ...

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Mercenary - Mercenaries in the classic era. Many Greek mercenaries fought for the Persian Empire during the early classic era. For example: Xerxes I, king of Persia, who invaded Greece in 484 BC employed Greek mercenaries. The best remembered is Demaratus, for his warning to Xerxes not to underestimate the Spartans before the Battle of Thermopylae. In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries (the "Ten Thousand") in 401 BC to seize t ...

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Mercenary - 20th century. In the 20th century, mercenaries have been mostly involved in conflicts on the continent of Africa. There have been a number of unsavory incidents in the brushfire wars of Africa, some involving recruitment of naïve European and American men "looking for adventure" and thrusting them into combat situations where they would not survive to get paid. Many of the adventurers in Africa who have been described as mercenaries were in fact ideologically motivated to support particular governm ...

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Like piracy, the mercenary ethos resonates with idealized adventure, mystery and danger. Examples of this are: The novel Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth and the movie (1981) with the same name, which go into some detail about an actual if fictionalized mercenary operation in Africa in the 1960s. The novel The Wild Geese by Daniel Carney and the movie (1978) with the same name. The plot is that a global British financial syndicate seeks to rescue the deposed leader of a central African ...

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