[Huskalar]

Originally Posted by Skybird

A nation should not leave it's national wars to mercenaries. War is no business that should be left to private enterprises. Becasue such enterprise do not have iunterest in acchieving peace, but in keeping wars alive (else they become short on incomes). Nations claiming sovereignity about controlling there own armed foces were a great acchievement in European history, that of course had to be acchieved against the bitter opposition of private war enterprises, and the unorgnaized, payed warbands that dominated the european battlefields before with uncountered brutality and arbitrariness against civil population (30-years-war being the prime example). Outsourcing of military capacity is no acchievement, but a huge step back in history.

It only makes sense if a nation wishes to wage wars for which it does not want to claim responsibility, saying the state does not interfere with private business. Nevertheless such a practice is questionable, at best.

I totally agree with you.