RE: [SG] Mercenary Mission Motivation

>If megacorporations are a part of the GZG universe (and they appear to
be
>with the Japanese Corporate Mercenaries), they would be likely to push
>legislation through the UN legalizing thier "security forces" (both
ground
>forces and ship escorts). Likely the ground forces authority would be
>limited to the property of the corporations. From there it is not too
far a
>strech to have a Mercenary Charter spelling out the rights and
>responsibilities of mercenaries and thier employers. Unregistered
>mercenaries would be treated as "illegal combatants".
>=>BOOM<=
>Bother! stepped on a landmine.

Given the number of references to Merc forces in the background
(remember a
lot of this is down to Steve Blease - it's not all my fault!! <grin>),
I've
always assumed that some kind of legalisation/general acceptance of Merc
operations is in force - something like the ideas in
Dorsai/Slammers/Falkenberg et al......

Jon (GZG)
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>Brian Bell
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Beth.Fulton@csiro.au [mailto:Beth.Fulton@csiro.au]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 20:04
>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>Subject: RE: [SG] Mercenary Mission Motivation
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>G'day,
>
>> What about mercenary units or soldiers hired by a
>> non-governmental group?
>
>Personally I'd say they're still mercs... though I don't doubt they'd
be
>given a much less culturally sensitive name by the company in question
;)
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth