{"id":3008,"date":"2021-03-03T22:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2021-03-04T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:50:01","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-a-mercenary-and-a-paid-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/03\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-mercenary-and-a-paid-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a Mercenary and a Paid Soldier?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n&#8220;People view soldiers like wives and mercenaries as prostitutes, who turn love into a transaction. But every soldier has a little mercenary in him, and vice versa. Troops often reenlist for big bonuses, a transactional practice common in most militaries. For example, the U.S. Army sometimes offers up to $90,000 for Soldiers to reenlist, enough to make modern mercenaries salivate. The author has also seen mercenaries refuse jobs on political grounds. Some American-hired guns will never take money from Russia, China, Iran, or a terrorist group; America\u2019s enemies are their enemies. The line between soldier and mercenary is fuzzy.&#8221; Sean McFate, <a href=\"https:\/\/ndupress.ndu.edu\/Portals\/68\/Documents\/strat-monograph\/mercenaries-and-war.pdf\">Mercenaries and War: Understanding Private Armies Today<\/a>, National Defense University Press, 2019. <p><\/p>\nInterview with Sean McFate about mercenaries\n<p><\/p><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kI5k1TXikqs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\n\nJeremy Scahill, <i>Blackwater: The Rise of the World&#8217;s Most Powerful Mercenary Army<\/i>, 2007.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7cS2MwpMJw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\n\n\n\nRussian Mercenaries &#8212; The Wagner Group<\/p><p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eka_Jn9K_HU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>Candace Rondeaux, <a href=\"https:\/\/d1y8sb8igg2f8e.cloudfront.net\/documents\/Decoding_the_Wagner_Group.pdf\">Decoding the Wagner\nGroup: Analyzing the Role\nof Private Military Security\nContractors in Russian Proxy Warfare<\/a>, 2019.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People view soldiers like wives and mercenaries as prostitutes, who turn love into a transaction. But every soldier has a little mercenary in him, and vice versa. Troops often reenlist for big bonuses, a transactional practice common in most militaries. For example, the U.S. Army sometimes offers up to $90,000 for Soldiers to reenlist, enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/03\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-mercenary-and-a-paid-soldier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is the difference between a Mercenary and a Paid Soldier?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}