Guns For Hire? A Season For Mercenaries – OpEd
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Just after a band of mercenaries tried to oust the government in the Maldives back in 1988, I asked a Maldivian diplomat, using a familiar military catchphrase, about the strength of his country’s “standing army.”
“Standing army?” the diplomat asked with mock surprise, and remarked perhaps half-jokingly, “We...