How does one become a modern mercenary? Will they ever be as prominent as they were during the cold war again?

How does one become a modern mercenary? Will they ever be as prominent as they were during the cold war again?

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who do you think is doing all the dirty work right now? regular army?
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PMCs aren't mercenaries

Mercs are more prominent now newfriend. World governments don't like doing their own dirty work anymore so plausible deniability doesn't cut it. They mostly run security ops and wetwork in the middle east.

During the Iraq war 1/4 of the US forces were mercs. Mercs make up like 1/3rd of African and mideastern armies rn. Slavs also into mercs. Were in a merc renaissance.

they are the very definition of mercenaries

Yes they are, PMC is a term used so they can be ignored by the war crime committees and the UN.

You don't.
PMC are boring shit 99,99% of time and wouldn't hire you because you would know how to become a 'merc'
Militant shit is certain death, and no way home if you're a US citizen.
You would bring nothing a funky group would want.

PMCs mostly only recruit ex-militaries to begin with. And it is nowhere near as romantic as you'd except ; You'd mostly escort NGOs workers or guard infrastructure, exactly the same boring shit any infantryman has to do in the first place.

you have to leave your bedroom to begin with

>asset management consultant.

>will they ever be as prominent

No.

Executive Outcomes shit on africa so hard that when Blackwater fucked the dog in Iraq to the point of having to change their company's name TWICE, the UN had enough and forever cucked the use of "pmcs".

If you have to ask, then merc work is not for you.

>Quit your current life
>Liquidate and sell everything you have right now
>Move to a wartorn country/conflict zone
>Obtain weapons and equipment with the cash you have from selling everything
>Start asking for jobs or contract...
>Hopefully profit.

I'm tempted to try this.
I hate my life right now, I'm stuck at a dead end menial job, making just enough to survive for a month before my next paycheck. As far as excitement in my life goes, it doesn't get anymore exciting than watching a game on tv.

try spending ten years in the military beforehand.

if you think anyone is going to take a fat stupid fuck on the basis you larp in the woods then you have problems with reality.

Didnt a bunch of Russian merc get their assholes blown out by us artillery recently? Seems like a fucked up way to go, you dont even get the respect they would give to a soldiers death

>Move to a wartorn country/conflict zone
One that there's enough foreign investment in, mind you. Some countries get wartorn and stay there.

You could do worse than learning fluent spanish or arabic.

Well, I have an idea.
1. Serve the army
2. get in touch with diaspora, that originates from some hot spot of the world
3. Make arrangements and travel there.
According to Der Spiegel's investigation, there were like 10 or 20 russians killed at Hasham, together with a chunk of syrians.

Or even French for the maghreb and Sahara and whatever is North Africa

Sure.

But realistically, the first step isn't becoming a pmc, but working in that field and meeting some.

Security jobs drain your soul.

>Try to move to wartorn country
>get arrested/killed/robbed blind
>tru to obtain weapons and equipments
>get robbed and killed