Reports about mercenaries and private security companies appear again and again, which over-dramatize their real importance in the wars. The mercenaries from the Middle Ages to Sir Francis Drake are often cited as historical examples. Or the 200,000 strong private army of the East Asia Company, which was allowed to exist until it plunged the neoliberal British Empire into a deep economic crisis and was therefore nationalized. As I said, mercenaries are not a new phenomenon, rather the many supposedly … Myths about War Keynesianism, mercenaries and private security companies versus jihadists weiterlesen