We promise there’ll be no long-winded talk of the laws of war, but here’s a snippet from the Geneva Convention that you should think about before venturing into the world as a new formed mercenary Īrt 47. Wars, that is.īefore we start in on the how’s and why’s and where’s, there’s one little paragraph of law that you should keep in mind. In our day and age, a mercenary can be more than that, and the definition just might need some updating according to what is actually going on around the world, and around the world’s armed conflicts. That says it all, doesn’t it? You might think so, but it doesn’t. Well, WikiPedia tells it something like this:Ī mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is “motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party” . (…and why you probably should, too.) What is a Mercenary?
