In the Macedonian army soldiers are trying their best one way or another to get to go to the NATO missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. WHY? To get a chance to present themselves in front of these PMC and start working for them for salary 10 times higher than what they get in the army.

But it’s not just combat forces. If you can repair us planes, you can work with the Saudis and Uae.

@@NotShowingOff oh i forgot all the carpenters, plumbers, electricians, warehouse workers, kitchen personnel... Hired through Kellog Brown & Root then through Halliburton and etc...

@@tonchie23 lots of admin contractors too

Some of them do it because of the thrill.

So im guessing you didnt take the offer if so why not

I wanna know why too..

I agree. You will be amazed at how much people (foreign, celebrities, hand companies) pay for military, intelligence, government compliance, legal, and law enforcement. Great point is that you want battle tested (Russia and U.S.), not show dogs (sorry China). You want the best, you get and pay for the best.

xaifer I didn’t take it because I wanted to make money with the leverage of the internet and business rather than a higher salary (would’ve been about 60k for me, making much more now)

Dechawat Arsanam ^

seven henson Ah, essentials of human civilizations

Along with the truly oldest profession shamans

Cathagianian built their army around mercenaries, Numidian cavalry was 1 of the best light horse at their time, hence the Roman paid them more to switch side.

They both sell their bodies for money lol

Why not combine the two?

There may be demand, but there doesn't have to be supply. Mercenary companies all but disappeared in the modern age thanks to govts. appropriating for themselves the sole right to use force. And they're making a comeback now only cos govts. are letting them, indeed encouraging them.

@@ArawnOfAnnwn , The never went away. My Grand Father WWII era and my uncles Vietnam era were in on it after the wars. There have been a lot of other similar actions after many other conflicts and wars ended, or even while they were happening. Heck, look at the CIA and the men they hire/use to carry out certain things around the world. Even in the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's there have been a demand and supply of mercenaries all around the world.

more like we had to gave those people something to do so the crime rate don't go up...

@@campkira Uhm, no. Not at all. They would have either assimilated back into civilian life, or, gone off and performed one or two more missions, or performed private security for all sorts of people, all around the world.

So forever. There can be no peace without war... Freedom is not free! Unfortunately

Wow, I didn't even know that until now. Those demons need to be hanged!

A handful of families have always run this country. Nothing has changed since the start. We are actually freer today than back then because we can vote but obviously that’s not enough. Remove the influence of wealth from politics and we will finally get to be a people’s democracy instead of an oligarchy.

Same with our media. just look at the family relations between CNN and the government

She was also behind the ponzi scheme that was Amway, if I remember correctly.

The video said it's owned by a private equity firm

Protestors destroyed a parked cruiser and stole the weapons

Yea sounds like a fantasy! Forget the lotto I'd rather win that prize waaaay better

It's a great story - go find it. After he reclaims guns (2) he goes and brings them back to police without getting shot by the police

1033 program

That's like saying you got your hands on a abanded revolver lying around in an alley.

war economy

Welcome to the Military-Industrial Complex

I'm sure their is evidence of Outer Heaven owning 5 of the largest PMCs in the world.

80s*

Kojima, and the writers at Konami, already got it from things that happened decades before.

And the Atlas Corporation.

They get robbed and killed by everyone so NO

PMC sounds like a weed hybrid.

@@lockheedmartin2112 Atlas is the Best

No, it's Diamond Dogs.

tell them good luck. its not 2004 anymore. Source: I am a contractor.

True enough.

Yea but their skills arent all that useful. Nobody is telling them. The problem is the lack of good options for retraining.

Most countries in the world have armies, and all armies have retirees. So how come most countries don't give rise to such mercenary companies? Simple. Cos they can't. Or rather, they're not allowed to. Mercenary companies all but disappeared in the modern age thanks to govts. appropriating for themselves the sole right to use force. And they're making a comeback now only cos govts. are letting them, indeed encouraging them. It has nothing to do with having soldiers available to fight. These companies exist because there's money to be made, usually from govt.

no your reasoning is wrong . try paying them respectable wages . that will solve the problem

Nobody guarantees you a future. Everybody makes choices in life. I don't see the root of this problem being the lack of middle-management jobs in regional sales offices for vets.

They've been around, but maybe we're heading to the days of Butcher Bay. Unlikely, however.

Have you people not heard of Bodyguards? That's legal you know.

we wuz kangz and shiet

Just like Indian democracy is broken democracy with one man with limited resources behind the helm rather than a functioning cabinet .

@@devin8362 No private militias can ever be more powerful than the combined firepower available to a federal government. You are taking about the combined army, Navy and Air force plus all the other defense and para military forces having an annual budget running up to 10% of the nation's GDP in some cases. A government can always squash an armed rebellion stirred up by a group of disgruntled private players like an ant being squashed by a boot.

@@devin8362 It is possible that one person secretly buys up and consolidates all the privatized defense companies through a gradual increase in stakes. This together will a gradual shrinking of actual national armies (through an outsourcing model) can happen over time till it reaches a tipping point. A lot of people would have to be sleeping at the wheel to not see this coming. Seeing how paranoid people already are about a Huawei monopolising even non-defense technologies, it is highly unlikely that they would just sit back and watch the defense establishment get concentrated in the hands of a wealthy few. You have to remember a 'purchase' that you speak about in your post is essentially a commercial contract that can be vetoed by the government of the end through laws and legislation. Therefore, it will finally come down to political will. Lobbying can only help to a certain extent to influence outcomes. But the greater good of any decision will strongly be debated in all circles before it is signed off by the collective.

Soldiers are way overpaid. The military is basically a form of welfare. Name 1 other job where an 18 year old can get paid $30k (plus $20k bonus) and then get lifetime healthcare benefits after working for 4 years? Oh and before you start with the "if you didn't serve don't criticize" comeback, I was in when Bush was president. Our bases didn't have BK and Subway when we deployed.

@@koonteriskool Since you've served as well, you know damn well that: 1. Your "benefits" are entirely relative to whether or not Congress wants to give them, and they WILL withhold things like basic pay and TA for months at a time while they play their petty, little games in DC. 2. If you depend on your "lifetime healthcare" for anything, you'll die waiting for treatment at the VA hospital like thousands of other servicemen have before you. 3. The "bonuses" are NEVER what is promised by the time the tax system is done with them; whether it be 2K or 20K. 4. I can name a few careers where you risk getting shot for a living. They ALL pay more than the military at the starting level. (For reference; police in my own home state make almost 40k starting pay; no college required) Fundamentally, These people found a better deal, and they took it. Neither you nor I have the right to fault them for that. Even IF people joined the military for excellent pay/benefits, they still join for economic reasons. The same reasoning drove these people to find work elsewhere and make more money doing what they were already doing.

@@wargriffin5 Pretty funny that your "alternate military career" that "doesn't get shot at" is police officer. You sure put a lot of thought into that one.

@@koonteriskool Can you read? It says "where you risk getting shot for a living." Also can't help but notice you didn't address any of the actual points made.

@@wargriffin5 Fine. You complain about benefits being withheld. Okay...ever heard of layoffs or a company backing out of a retirement plan...oops, guess someone never had a civilian job. Then you complain about paying taxes. I mean that suggests civilian don't pay taxes? If anything civilian pay MORE taxes as often military members are exempt from state and local taxes. Also the VA is usually ranked similarly to civilian care in terms of quality (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215146/). I use it and never had a problem, most vets who complain about it seem to be the Keren types who complain about everything. Meanwhile Tricare is usually ranked as the best medical system in the US. You then go on this tangent about the military being "dangerous." You know well that most of your time in the military will be spend doing busy work like mopping floors or cutting grass. So unless you consider doing those tasks "dangerous" I guess you're right. Don't get me wrong. The military is basically the only way out of poverty for many people. I don't have a problem with some poor guy from Arkansas who wants to go to college and then joins, and goes on to make something of himself. But I do have a problem with guys who end up sitting in a motorpool in places like Fort Stewart their whole career, turning a wrench, and then talking about how that makes them a hero and how hard their service was.

Welkome to Amerika! Would you like some overpriced health care? Rigged 2 party system? Or just casually exploiting the new generation of immigrants?

it is cheaper since they don't had to take care or taking reposiblity of them... since some would be a war crime or breaking treaty but in this case.. they don't had to do anything... just stop paying..

That depends on your definition of PMC. Are you including defense manufacturers that actually make US military gear? Then you are correct. If you are talking about battlefield contractors and private security forces, then you are wrong. The largest employer of security contractors in the USA are other corporations and the US state department. Neither of which is involved in the $600-700 Billion USD defense budget of the USA.

@@kurousagi8155 what do you mean by "gear manufacturers"? On 4:16 the video clearly and specifically tells that US Department of Defense spent $370 billion on contractors in 2019. "Gear manufacturers" would go into another category, which is not what this video is about.

@@amanchukin7085 gear manufacturers. Companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and General Dynamics are all considered defense contractor or PMCs in the case of the $370 Billion spent on contractors. The USA does not spend $370 Billion on security personnel.

Outer haven

poor snake,instead of recarnation or afterlife he just wanted get isekai end enjoy some rpg harem

There are many things competing for the titles of world's first profession, like spying, prostitution etc. Considering the fact that prostitution has been observed in other primates as well, it could be the first unfortunate profession ever.

I laughed! Did you mean that to be funny? Oldest profession: 1- cook 2- prostitute 3- mercenary ???

@@Redmenace96 Prostitute surely comes before cooking.

Wrong. World oldest profession: hunting.

Nah most of time it seems to be more like these PMCs hire grunts from poor third world countries because these are way cheaper then ex US soldiers and then let them guard some compound. These men then sit on their asses until they either end their service and return home or get blown to pieces by some militant. But that stuff is to boring for the public so the news networks go on a big circlejerk about ex special forces and how much money they make while the US public gets some shiver down their spine and feel validated in their Hollywood movie mentality.

@@Xfire209lmao you're right I just seen an interview of Eric prince talking casually about how their recruits are expendable and countries would rather stress over dead mercenaries than dead service men

Double standards is nothing new for US

I guess you talk about "Shadow Company". A true good documentary tbh

Would you rather news sources _not_ report on this topic? Would you rather be ignorant than informed? Also, how is this advertising, and to whom? Are UKposts viewers hiring mercenaries? What parts of this video are unduly positive rather than neutrally informative? Obviously, you are the one with an agenda, not CNBC.

cnbc must be an invester

During the middle ages and Renaissance, all major lords, nobility, and princes used mercenaries. Even major kings, emperors, and popes used them as elite troops and guards.

Machivelli thought mercenaries were worthless and usually unskilled. Back then a mercenary could have been a band of criminals beholden to the highest bidder, in other words, not loyal.

@@suzanneschmidt3755 they are loyalty is bought so they're with highest bidder

Well man is evil

alot of time they don't had choice since either risk dying in some other people war without getting good paid or just work in low wage industry for the rest of their life..

No it's not only a idiot would think that humans are the root of all evil because we are smart enough to be purposely evil

god hates coward

For real??? Tell me more.

@@mwanikimwaniki6801 These reports often ignore other foreign mercenary companies in order to circlejerk over American ex special forces and their contract service and the american companies that employ them. Like they always start with 2001 pretending that it was some kind of american invention when the south Africans and British started this trend already in the early 90s with Sandline and Executive outcomes. And the large numbers of contractors from poorer countries like Uganda, Chile, Peru or as mentioned above Mozambique are mentioned for like three seconds before they ocne again phantasize about their ex green berets, etc. The reason is propably that a report of hundreds of ex Ugandan soldiers no protecting the US embassy in Iraq is less exciting for the average American viewer than seeing their own countrymen serving as mercenaries.

@@mwanikimwaniki6801 there is a Mozambique LNG Project, in which foreign investors have committed about 20 billion dollars to the project, the problem is that a local Islamic insurgency is trying to stall that project. Russia Wagner went in, but failed to stop or contain the insurgency and were forced to leave.at the moment a south Africa mercenary outfit has being hire to deal with problem. this is how Executive Outcomes a south Africa PMC came to existence, ensuring Angolan government oilfields and diamond mines, were secured which prior were constantly attacked by rebels and even under their control

In the past, many battles were fought using mercenaries. Especially the middle ages as lords had no standard armies.

@@marrqi7wini54 all loyal to the mighty dollar

You're trying to sound cool but end up sounding dumb because mercenaries have fought in most if not all wars

@@marrqi7wini54 "In the past" is an important detail.

Watch MAN from UNCLE

solid seth

*ARRRGGGHHHHHHH* ARGHHhhhhhh aarghhhhhhh......

Are we the baddies?

Pirate use Skull too

I think Brazilian spec ops have skull on their emblems

Mercenary when it's a Russian. Private military contractor when it's an American. Get with the propaganda or get out!

@@onehope6448 is there anymore propaganda

@@yukisnalda2268 I'm guessing they avoid using the term of mercenary's because that would subject them to follow the Geneva Convention

C'mon now name make a difference: mercenary is just a cheap hired gun, private military contractors are expensive profit making killers. Put some respect on PMCs.

@@melvinbarnett1910 It's hard to respect them after the Blackwater Incident, Where a rogue PMC just massacre an entire civilian without provocation in the middle of Baghdad.

How about Atlas?

Blacwater

@@jbarral6509 how about your mom

you need lawyer first before company...

Someone should hire you, not force it to ur neighborhood lol

Makes no sense

campkira update

spock update

I loved that campaign!

Osama was from Saudi Arabia

Law, legislation,legalese, etc etc are not based on morality, even though it seems like they are at first... they are based on what is harmful for society, and what is beneficial for society, there is no morality in that, because what is harmful to society isn’t necessarily an intention to harm it, but maybe to change it, and if that is illegal, then bringing about positive fair and equal change will never happen and that would be immoral... therefor making the law corrupted... and this philosophy can also be applied to PMC, child marriage, slavery, prostitution, and a whole lot of other morally deprived acts that are legal somewhere in the world...

Technically it might already be and definitely has been for eschewed for many periods in history and mercenaries were getting different treatment than 'traditional' armed forces.

because this kind of thing is already exist since ancient times Greek mercenries on Carthagnian Empires etc,,, How old are you?

@@jon-unicorn-doxxer ur right that it already existed however it was never a for profit company available in the open, having the same demands from share holders like Google or amazon. The shameless profiteering from institutions like Prisons and War is morally disgusting in the least and at best has the potential to ingrain war and injustice into acceptable behaviours in modern society.

@@L3L3Lee so you mean listed in public market? Most of modern day PMC are not even listed in stock market...also ancient mercenaries run like a group or a company same thing like modern PMC does but smaller and more regional...

@@devin8362 cant disagree with anything you said. Excellent points, the ironybis that most of us are too preoccupied with social media and entertainment to realise the sand is shifting from beneath our feet. By the time we wake up, we may already belong to lords and barrons instead of a government with acceptability to its people.

Yemi Fatoki USA is owned by the Saudi Arabian royal family... they own the federal reserve....

Politicians ARE the oligarchs. Those elected are just there for formality.

Stop saying that bs. You only get a few options in life. Did you take a dump today? Yesterday? Day before? What about tomorrow or day after? You think you will ever shower, eat. Or take a dump again? Yes? I guess history repeats itself.

This was the main plot for COD Advance Warfare. Remember Atlus?

Given the line of work it sounds like a really expensive insurance premium

Some companies do offer life insurance, some don’t. I did contracting for 3 years. My contribution for $500K insurance was $100 per month. The PMC picked up the rest. But answer this: if you had the skill set, would you turn down $15K a month?

Prepare for Corporate wars!

well the movie of this type of thing is based on real thing

I believe you're looking for public military companies haha jk

depend how much money they needed...

PMC is far better because at least you don't have entire government looking for your head or trying to own you on a daily basis.

Ill choose pmc however the golden age of mercenary work is over nowadays its not killing or fighting war its security work

I mean, if you're good at it and your only alternative back home is to work at Walmart or be a school teacher, the choice is easy.

@@hinducroat9838 PMC work might actually expand into fighting wars someday when national armies are no longer needed or when capitalism is no longer bound by the state.

And how does that have anything to do with the video at all youre just typing muh conspiracy theories to scare people

1. It says in the video, contracta. Governments reward contracts to whoever can do the job and get paid, in this case PMCs for security services. This is their motivation, contracts. 2. French foreign legion has a notorious reputation for being mercenaries, but in fact there is a clear difference, PMCs are private, owned and operated by private companies, being NOT part of the country's armed forces. FFL is an army unit within the French armed forces, they follow the same rules as regular soldiers

You probably have a pretty good chance then. Better than most.

Macciavelli should have read a history book to see all the crucial battles and wars mercenaries have won.

Michael H. Which battles do you have in mind?

​@@vvolfbelorven7084 Literally google "battles won by mercenaries" or simply type "mercenary" on wikipedia. How about I give you one from modern history? EO in Sierra Leone.

Michael H. I could google it, but I wanted you to back up your claim. Telling someone to look things up is a laziness. Would you call that “EO in Sierra Leone” a crucial battle and war in history?

@@vvolfbelorven7084 if you consider saving the country from a guerilla takeover significant then yes.

U.S Military is most well funded, best trained most elite military in the world.

Most well armed but not elite(apart the amount of elites u have, tens of thousands) uk trained literally every special forces including delta so where is your claim coming from?

They also tried to warn us of giant robots, cyborg ninjas, and special forces operatives that could carry 20 different weapons and still hide under a box to avoid detection... Not exactly what I'd call a reliable source.

@@burtonl7239 Kojima also predicted internet media, AI and a MAGA president. He's legit.