The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico bo...
  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
    53·
    6 months ago

    30 seconds in and I’m checking out. I can already tell it a propaganda piece intended to make me angry. Apparently they think the use of mercenaries in war is new or has somehow exploded in use. Mercs are maybe the 2nd or 3rd oldest profession. Not interested.

    • delirious_owl
      2·
      6 months ago

      How much were they used in the World Wars? I’m familiar with Nepali mercenaries, but I think it was a pretty small percent.

      • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        6 months ago

        To figure that out you’d first have to decide how you want to define “mercenary”. Depending on how you define the word, either almost everyone was a mercenary or, if you use the current Geneva Convention definition, almost no one was.

        The truth, as usual, is probably somewhere in that murky, uncomfortable middle ground that no one likes to look at or acknowledge.