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Mercenaries on the Battlefield: What Legal Advisors Must Know

Mercenaries on the Battlefield: What Legal Advisors Must Know

by Jeffrey S. Thurnher | Dec 2, 2020

Mercenaries on the Battlefield: What Legal Advisors Must Know Mercenaries … are useless and dangerous. And if a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure… — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Mercenaries have been...

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