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>...has turned the US armed forces into a standing mercenary force. This statement makes no sense. A mercenary is "a professional soldier hired to serve in a
by unit91 9y ago
>...has turned the US armed forces into a standing mercenary force.
This statement makes no sense.
A mercenary is "a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army" [1]. It's impossible to be a mercenary for your own country.
1. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+mercenary https://www.google.com/search?q=define+mercenary
- b1daly 9y agoJeez, I’m making a rhetorical point that the US army, which is not technically a mercenary army, as it is the official army of a sovereign state, has turned into an organization whose operations are driven by business interests.
- jayliew 9y agoJust that there’s no confusion, the point of a civilian-controlled military is so that the military doesn’t do what the military wants. The military does what its people wants (or maybe needs), based on instructions from the civilian leader(s) voted into political office by the civilians. The military is but one of many tools in the toolkit of our civilian foreign policy makers. If you have an issue with how foreign policy is done, the right person/people in charge that should know are the politicians. They control the military.