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PMC's Should Become The Standard Military Force Around The World
Private Military Companies should become the standard for the entire world, due to the fact they are generally better trained and actually want to do the job they are assigned, unlike a 19 year old American or Brit who wants to be back home with his girlfriend and family.
 Yugoslavia  19 May 2008 03:11
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Armies need to be downscaled massively so that countries can focus on domestic affairs instead of international. I don't care how powerful ones army is, the army should never come before the people and their needs and i see PMC's as focusing more on the peoples needs.
 
 Yugoslavia  19 May 2008 20:54
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The phrase "private military companies" is just a new term for mercenary armies. The purpose of mercenaries is to allow those who employ them to have deniability for the crimes committed, the crimes that the mercenaries were hired by governments and corporations to commit against innocents:

- Blackwater/Xe was used by the US government to commit torture and other atrocities against Iraqis with impunity. According to atrocious "laws" the Iraqi puppet government wrote, Blackwater can only be tried or sued in the US, not Iraq, thus Iraqis would have to travel to the US to even have the case heard. Who among them has the money to do that?

- The Janjaweed Militia are mercenaries in Sudan are not "officially" part of the government, but are used by the arab/muslim government to terrorize, rape and murder the African population of the country.

- Executive Outcomes is a South African-based mercenary company (founded during the Apartheid regime) which has been employed by brutal regimes or corrupt corporations in countries with rich oil and diamond deposits. The governments and corporations employ EO to train their own mercenaries or to "eliminate" opposition movements which threaten monopolies or which attempt to ensure that the citizens of the country benefit from the resources rather than foreigners. Members of EO were arrested in New Guinea for attempting a coup d'etat of the legitmate government.

And so on. The purpose of mercenaries is to be outside the law, untouched by the law. They are never brought to uphold the law - that's what UN peacekeepers do.
 
 K9  06 Nov 2009 10:23
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British soldiers violent are there is only a very very small proportion of The British Army actually want what you say. The British army is also one of the best trained armies on the planet it may be small but it is one of the most powerful
 
 pooleyric  19 May 2008 13:24
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