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Thursday, March 26, 2015

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How Mercenaries Are Changing Warfare

A private contractor gestures to his colleagues flying over in a helicopter as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 5, 2005.The use of mercenaries in warfare has a very long history—much longer, in fact, than the almost-exclusive deployment of national militaries to wage wars. Before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended Europe’s Thirty Years’ War and marked the rise of the modern state system, medieval powers from kings to popes routinely hired private fighters to do battle for them.

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