2007-03-27 04:11:42 · 4 answers · asked by Cipher 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
A mercernary is basically a soldier who fights for the highest bidder. Janissaries, Condotierris, Ronin and assorted other soldiers have fought for who ever was paying them.
There are plenty of mercenaries fighting in Iraq as guards for private corporations in the Green Zone and even for the US Government. The Blackwater boys are basically mercs.
Mercenaries definitely have their uses and used appropriately are possibly better than volunteer or conscripted forces. They know why they are fighting, they want to be fighting, and they know their weapons and their jobs inside and out.
2007-03-27 04:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict and "is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party".[1][2] When the term "mercenary" is used to refer to a soldier of a national, regular army, it usually considered to have pejorative connotations.
2007-03-27 04:24:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A paid solider, who fights for whoever pays them. America has them too! Northrup Grumman, Haliburtin, all those companies have professional soldiers.
2007-03-27 05:15:45 · answer #3 · answered by martin d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone who mercenates
2007-03-27 04:44:23 · answer #4 · answered by georgewallace78 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋