American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East

Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:59PM (#18233660)

> The echos are getting louder

These mercenaries are closer to Crassus hiring legions to fight a foreign war moreso than Caesar or Sulla marching on Rome. American firepower is predominantly state owned and loyal to its civilian leadership. These mercenaries are a liability because they make America look bad, not because they pose even an intermediate threat to American military power.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by Balgair on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:14PM (#18234106)

True!

A good look into this further is Mike Duncan's The Storm before the Storm that leads into the Sulla era: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic...

Duncan's The History of Rome podcast is very good overall and very much worth a listen.

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Re:American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politician... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @08:47PM (#18234600)

Thank you! I have always had a strange fascination with Sulla–as a man, a politician and a general. Appreciate the book and podcast references.

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