Re: Merc Guild

On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 12:24 PM, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

> The loyalties of such mercenary groups lay with their (temporay) 
> employer,
> not with their nation. While they properly paid, they fought well (at 
> least
> the beter units did). But if their paymaster went bankrupt - "No
Money, 
> No
> Swiss".

This would seem to me to be a better model/argument than the deniability

one.

Schoon