Thanks to Kiara for the link on MPs. (And I guess your husband will be happy
to hear that he's a "Somebody"!).;)
Thanks to Alan for the excellent links from Sandline, MPRI, etc. The geocities
link and the one on Sandlines stance on regulation were both very topical. I
can forsee the possibility of UN monitored Private Military Corporations
(PMCs). They seem to be setup very much like any other corporation (a
management team, detailed project planning, clear guidelines on payment and
what missions they accept, etc). I can see them doing good service where
countries don't want to commit their own troops because no direct strategic
interest is threatened or because the conflict zone is too hot or where it
isn't felt that their country can cut the mustard (I refer to some third world
countries and others like Canada who are getting feebler by the day). PMCs can
provide up to date muscle with lots of experience to act as cadre and trainers
and to act as small spec ops or strikers to assist local militaries.
Reading the MPRI site, I see they get all their major international efforts
approved by Dept of
State. So if you had a NAC-homed PMC, they'd
probably do the same thing - just make sure
the NAC is happy with any given contract. This is good for both parties, the
NAC would get to reinforce places like colonies or allies without diverting
its own highly skilled forces. And it keeps them out of some potential
political situations and they don't even have to pick up much (or any) of the
bill. A win win situation.
Presumably, if you had PMCs operating under Guild Auspices, and the Guild
agreed upon by international convention, then you'd have Guild (or Guild & UN)
observers making spot checks and accompanying missions to verify compliance
with international rules of armed conflict and to insure the mercs were doing
the job for their employers in a manner consistent with the Mercenary Code(c).
This is actually something mentioned (though not in the 2183 context) in the
Sandline article.
Very cool. I've also had John A grant me permission to post his article on
mercs on stargrunt.ca. It was a very neat piece as well and offered some very
good thoughts on the matter.
Tomb.
Thanks to Kiara for the link on MPs. (And I guess your husband will be happy
to hear that he's a "Somebody"!).;)
Thanks to Alan for the excellent links from Sandline, MPRI, etc. The geocities
link and the one on Sandlines stance on regulation were both very topical. I
can forsee the possibility of UN monitored Private Military Corporations
(PMCs). They seem to be setup very much like any other corporation (a
management team, detailed project planning, clear guidelines on payment and
what missions they accept, etc). I can see them doing good service where
countries don't want to commit their own troops because no direct strategic
interest is threatened or because the conflict zone is too hot or where it
isn't felt that their country can cut the mustard (I refer to some third world
countries and others like Canada who are getting feebler by the day). PMCs can
provide up to date muscle with lots of experience to act as cadre and trainers
and to act as small spec ops or strikers to assist local militaries.
Reading the MPRI site, I see they get all their major international efforts
approved by Dept of
State. So if you had a NAC-homed PMC, they'd
probably do the same thing - just make sure
the NAC is happy with any given contract. This is good for both parties, the
NAC would get to reinforce places like colonies or allies without diverting
its own highly skilled forces. And it keeps them out of some potential
political situations and they don't even have to pick up much (or any) of the
bill. A win win situation.
Presumably, if you had PMCs operating under Guild Auspices, and the Guild
agreed upon by international convention, then you'd have Guild (or Guild & UN)
observers making spot checks and accompanying missions to verify compliance
with international rules of armed conflict and to insure the mercs were doing
the job for their employers in a manner consistent with the Mercenary Code(c).
This is actually something mentioned (though not in the 2183 context) in the
Sandline article.
Very cool. I've also had John A grant me permission to post his article on
mercs on stargrunt.ca. It was a very neat piece as well and offered some very
good thoughts on the matter.
Tomb.
G'day,
> I can see them doing good service where
Scenario wise you could also have cases were the local troops are less than
impressed by the involvement of mercs and take issues into their own hands,
like what in PNG a few years back.
Cheers