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Mercenary at a glance
The strongest research directions include International and national laws of war and Private military companies. Use the connected concepts below as starting points, not as a keyword checklist.
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International and national laws of war
27 related topics
Private military companies
15 related topics
Foreign national servicemen
11 related topics
Overview
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Overview
- Armed conflict War
- Military
- Geneva Conventions
- Combatants Combatant
- Xerxes I
- Anabasis Anabasis (Xenophon)
- Xenophon
- Cyrus the Younger
- Ten Thousand
- Artaxerxes II
- Battle of Cunaxa
- Clearchus Clearchus of Sparta
- Black Sea
- Sileraioi
- Dionysius I of Syracuse
- Athenian
- Iphicrates
- Ancient Egypt
- Mania Mania (satrap)
- Satrap
- Memnon of Rhodes
- Darius III
- Alexander the Great
- Macedonia Macedon
- Battle of the Granicus River
- Indo-Greek Kingdoms Indo-Greek Kingdom
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Hellenistic Hellenistic period
- Tamil literature
- Purananuru
International and national laws of war
- Protocol I
- Protocol Protocol (diplomacy)
- UN Mercenary Convention United Nations Mercenary Convention
- Défense Conseil International
- Private military company
- StGB Strafgesetzbuch
- StAG German nationality law
- American occupation of Iraq History of Iraq (2003–2011)
- Mark Thatcher
- Foreign Enlistment Act 1870
- Greek War of Independence
- International Brigades
- Spanish Civil War
- Law of war
- Anti-Pinkerton Act of 1893
- 5 U.S.C. Title 5 of the United States Code
- US government
- Pinkerton National Detective Agency Pinkerton (detective agency)
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Mission statement
- United States Army
- Convoy
- Victory Base Complex
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Aegis Defence Services
- Erinys Iraq Erinys International
- Blackwater Blackwater (company)
Foreign national servicemen
- Gurkha
- British British Army
- Indian armies Indian Army
- French Foreign Legion
- Spanish Legion
- International Legion International Legion (Ukraine)
- Commonwealth of Nations
- Brigade of Gurkhas
- The Crown
- Constitution of India
- French Army
Private military companies
- Private armies Private army
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Brigadier General Brigadier general (United States)
- Third Infantry Division 3rd Infantry Division (United States)
- DynCorp
- Attacked and killed in Fallujah 2004 Fallujah ambush
- First Battle of Fallujah
- Hamid Karzai
- Plan Colombia
- Myles Frechette
- Developed countries Developed country
- Genocide
- Kofi Annan
- Secretary-General of the United Nations
- International law
Notable mercenaries
Cyber mercenary
- Cyber Cyberattack
- Non-state actor
- Nation states Nation state
- Plausible deniability
Sources
- Arrian
- De Sélincourt, Aubrey Aubrey de Sélincourt
- Anabasis Alexandri (The Campaigns of Alexander) Anabasis Alexandri
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Goldsworthy, Adrian Adrian Goldsworthy
- Wayback Machine
- Judge Advocate Judge Advocate General's Corps
- United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps
Historical
- Niccolò Machiavelli Machiavelli
Since 1970s
Status in international law
- ISSN ISSN (identifier)
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Mercenary
Top relations
related to Historical · 73
Mercenary → American, American Historical Review, American Revolution, Anthony, Astin, Atwood, Avant, Barbarous Strangers, Biography, Cambridge, Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, Carthage, Ch, Charles, Congo, Congress's, Deborah, Declaration, Describes
related to Since 1970s · 46
Mercenary → Anthony Mockler, Army, Blackwater, British Columbia, Brooks, Canadian Consortium, Challenges, Congo, Coups, Etat, Fortune, Guy Arnold, Heaven, Hired Guns, Human Security, Hunter Hammer, Hunter Mackay, ISBN, Journeys, March
related to Foreign national servicemen · 28
Mercenary → Although, APGC77 Art, Brigade, Britain, British, British Army, Commonwealth, Constitution, Crown, France, French Army, French Foreign Legion, French Foreign Legionnaires, Gurkha, Gurkhas, India, Indian, Indian Army, Nations, Nepal
related to France · 17
Mercenary → Défense Conseil International, France, French, Geneva, However, In, It, L436-1, L436-2, L436-3, L436-4, L436-5, Penal Code, PMC, The, The French, This
related to International and national laws of war · 15
Mercenary → All, APGC77, Article, August, Geneva Convention, Geneva Conventions, International Armed Conflicts, June, Protection, Protocol, Protocol Additional GC, The Protocol Additional, United States, Victims, While
related to UN concerns over legality of PMCs · 11
Mercenary → Blackwater, In October, Kofi Annan, PMC, PMCs, Secretary-General, The, The United Nations, UN, United Nations, Yet
related to Private military companies · 10
Mercenary → British Foreign, Commonwealth Office, FCO, In February, Military Command, PMC, PMCs, Private, The, UN
related to South Africa · 9
Mercenary → American, Equatorial Guinea, Foreign Military Assistance Act, In, Iraq, Mark Thatcher, Simon Mann, South Africa, South African
see also · 7
Mercenary → BC, BrazilMercenary War, Filibuster, Libyan War, Mercenaries, Soldiers' Revolt, Truceless WarMontreux DocumentPrivate
related to Austria · 2
Mercenary → Austrian, If
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mercenaries army war military british forces also states foreign one united soldiers private french hired south government company fight american
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercenary | is a | non-state actor that carries out cyber attacks for nation states for hire | 0.90 | text |
| Blackwater was a | instance of | The report found that the use of contractors | 0.80 | text |
| the Bessi | instance of | OtherMembers of independent Thracian tribes | 0.80 | text |
| Dii often joined the ranks of large organized armies as mercenaries | instance of | OtherMembers of independent Thracian tribes | 0.80 | text |
| the Palaiologoi | instance of | Among their leaders there were also members of some old Byzantine Greek noble families | 0.80 | text |
| Comneni | instance of | Among their leaders there were also members of some old Byzantine Greek noble families | 0.80 | text |
| the Wars of Castro | instance of | during inter-family conflicts | 0.80 | text |
| mercenaries were widely used to supplement the much smaller forces loyal to particular families | instance of | during inter-family conflicts | 0.80 | text |
| the Kallar | instance of | Kongars worked along with the three empires' warrior tribes | 0.80 | text |
| Maravar | instance of | Kongars worked along with the three empires' warrior tribes | 0.80 | text |
| Aghamudaiyar | instance of | Kongars worked along with the three empires' warrior tribes | 0.80 | text |
| Parkavar | instance of | Kongars worked along with the three empires' warrior tribes | 0.80 | text |
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Nodes513
Edges512
Triples243
Avg. degree2
Density0.003899
Components1
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