In 1998, South Africa formally signed a treaty to join international law against mercenaries.

In January 1990, the world's largest mercenary organization, [South African EO Mercenary Company], was forced to disband under the compulsory force of the South African government.

In 2003, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution banning the profession of mercenaries.

In addition, the Geneva Convention and other binding international war conventions prohibit mercenaries from participating in wars, and violators are deemed to be punished as war criminals.

Today in the 21st century, mercenaries have become illegal organizations. The original mercenary organizations around the world have either disbanded or reorganized, and they have parted ways.

Perhaps it was a fateful showdown, and mercenaries who were divided into two categories, both openly and secretly, became their mortal enemies.

Some of them were unwilling to be bound by the common people, and eventually turned from light to dark, becoming anarchic and stateless mercenaries.

However - this kind of mercenary is illegal!

In the definition of the United Nations, participating in combat is not for the purpose of state, nation, belief or ethics. They are a group of professional soldiers who are employed by a country or group for only obtaining money, and are all illegal mercenaries and will be punished by international law.

That is, due to the change of identity, being a criminal itself is a kind of criminal, so the mercenary's style of conduct has become increasingly unscrupulous.

Whether the employer is an international wanted criminal, terrorist, anti-government armed force, or the Great Drug Swallow, or private armed force.

Whether it is a murder, kidnapping, or even a terrifying operation for the employer, the task they take is the same in their eyes as long as they give money.

A typical person who gives money to whom he will work hard!

In addition to this uncontrolled illegal mercenary, most of the former mercenaries turned around gorgeously and became two other professions.

One type is PSC and the other type is PMC!

PSC is a private security company, which mainly provides armed or unarmed security services for various non-military organizations, such as companies, institutions, private organizations, etc.

Contents include: political and security risk analysis, confidential investigation, pre-employment review, security consultant, security training, crisis management and response, information security and investigation, conflict management, civil emergency rescue, surveillance and surveillance, civil target patrol and guard, demanding people to follow the guard, escort, etc.

The remaining batch of former mercenaries changed their appearance and received orders from the military forces of various countries in the name of private military contracting companies, providing various services to the military, changing the soup and not changing the medicine to do the job of mercenaries, and occasionally grabbing the job of PSC. Its name is PMC.

PMC is a common abbreviation of two words, one is Private Military Companies and the other is Private Military Contractors. The former refers to enterprises, and the latter refers to both enterprises and individual employees within these enterprises.

For example, the most famous "Blackwater Mercenary Company" in the United States has now been renamed "Blackwater International" XE for "shooting civilians" and "prison abuse incidents".

It has more than 2,000 veterans, and even the security of the United Nations headquarters in New York is under its responsibility for the "MPRI" (Military Professional Resources Company).

These companies and their employees are all called PMC.

Due to the constraints of international law and the United Nations, activities of warlike nature can no longer be carried out, and if the PMC wants to obtain a lot of money, development must be adjusted.

The research and development, trafficking and maintenance of arms, war logistics support, military personnel training, international security, national defense, military training and security protection work naturally became the main sources of income.

Compared with the advanced version of security guards like PSC, PMC is much more militarized, and will naturally assist the military in carrying out some military operations that cannot be exposed.

In addition to terrorist organizations, anti-government armed forces, and life-threatening enemies, they also faced with their former brothers and their current mortal enemies.

He also works hard for money, but is an illegal "mercenary"!!

Now, the rapidly developing PMCs have contracted more than 50% of the United States' military operations with the contract amount exceeding US$300 billion.

Some specific existences between mercenaries and PMCs and have national government backgrounds, such as French foreign legions, Russian Cossack mercenaries, Nepalese Gurkha troops, etc., are even more prosperous.

Even China's "David", Poly, China Security and other new domestic security companies have also taken the "Belt and Road" carriage and started to go to the world, seeking to transform into PSCs or even PMCs, in order to seize a cake of their own from the mouths of many international PMC tycoons.

Against this background, there are military authoritative predictions that perhaps in future military wars, in order to reduce casualties in their own countries, countries will turn the battlefield into a pure "money battle", that is, a battle between "military contractors".

What's more, some say-

When the PMCs are strong enough, when they are not following orders, when they start trying to lead...
Chapter completed!