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COMBAT FOR SALE: THE NEW, POST-COLD WAR MERCENARIES.

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From: USA Today (Magazine)
Date: 20000301
Author:ISENBERG, DAVID

Private military companies are working hand in glove with various governments to fight their wars in a businesslike manner.

THEY'RE BACK! The new and improved mercenaries are now the good guys--at least to some. No doubt Niccolo Machiavelli, the Italian political philosopher, must be turning over in his grave. After all, in his classic work of realpolitik, The Prince, he wrote: "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline."

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