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ARTICLES RELATED TO Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war | | | |  Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of warSee 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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| | | | Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenaries in popular culture 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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| | | | Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenaries in European history
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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| | | | Mercenary - Mercenaries and the laws of war: Encyclopedia II - Mercenary - Mercenary operations 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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