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MERCENARIES ESSENTIAL TO COMING NEO-FEUDAL ORDER


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7 November 2006

by Dr. Robert Hickson

The "privatization" of many government agencies that grew under the Reagan administration in the 1980s - even the transformation of the U.S. Post Office to the privatized U.S. Postal Service - has spread to the military, as the developing rise of a global "corporatocracy" requires an analogous transformation of parts of the U.S. military into a mercenary force, with "private military companies" able to serve the needs of the global and strategic elites.

This essay on the privatization of "military and security services" is a sequel to an earlier strategic essay I wrote, entitled "Setting Just Limits to New Methods of Warfare." This sequel might also be entitled "Setting Just Limits to Old Methods of Warfare under New Conditions of Technology and Mammon."

Over the past decades, largely hidden from public view, review or oversight, there has arisen a trans-national, managerial elite, closely allied with the tax-exempt foundations and the governing elite which is intent on establishing a new feudal order, sometimes called a "new mercantile order." Recent reports in The Wanderer on the North American Union and the proposed NAFTA Superhighway are our regional examples of this, but what is happening here is just part of what is occurring globally, and this will have an enormous impact on the U.S. military and will fuel the rise of private, professional militias.

Duke University professor, Dr. Peter Feaver, who now serves on the staff of the National Security Council in Washington D.C., candidly admitted at an October 2004 Conference on "The Privatization of American National Security":

    "In fact what we're seeing is a return to neo-feudalism. If you think about how the [British] East India Company played a role in the rise of the British Empire, there are similar parallels to the rise of the American Quasi-Empire."

Just as the British East India Company plundered India, and the Hudson Bay Company plundered Canada through an alliance of the British military and merchants and merchant-bankers, current conditions of finance and technology under the control of global elites are prepared to help what the late President Eisenhower called the two-fold danger of "the Military-Industrial Complex," in combination with "the Scientific and Technological Elite," eagerly disposed to advance a "new mercantile order."

THE RISE OF THE MERCENARIES

The phenomenon of mercenaries or "soldiers of fortune" is an ancient tradition, whether as individual soldiers "for hire" or as larger "free companies" and even as "secret armies." Carthaginian mercenaries from Spain and Sardinia, or Greek mercenaries in Persia, for example - and as they were also later used by the conquering Philip of Macedon and his son, Alexander the Great - are well known to students of Greco-Roman history.

There are also the famous Swiss mercenaries, at least until the 1513 Battle of Marignano; the Irish "Wild Geese" in seventeenth-century Spain and elsewhere; the English and American "privateers" and Italian "maritime mercenaries" (or "mercenaries of the sea"); the "condottieri" of Italy; the Hessians; the French Foreign Legion; the British use of the Gurkhas from Nepal; various military secret societies of China and Japan (to include the Chinese "Triads" - or "Tongs," like the 1900-era "Boxers" - and the current Japanese and Korean "Yakusa"); all the way up to the private military companies of more recent times, like Executive Outcomes, Sandline International, Blackwater, Triple Canopy, Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI), and Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), a subsidiary of Halliburton.

To quote retired Lt. Col. and military historian Michael Lee Lanning on the concept and reality of "mercenaries":

    "They go by many names - mercenaries, soldiers of fortune, wild geese, hired guns, legionnaires, contract killers, hirelings, condottieri, contractors, and corporate warriors - these men who have fought for money and plunder [or other perquisites] rather than for cause or patriotism. Soldiers of fortune have always played significant roles in warfare, they are present on the battlefields of today, and they certainly will be a part of whatever combat occurs in the future."

The sophisticated incorporation of mercenaries into what has been called "the military-industrial complex" is - and morally should be for any Catholic - a troubling development, especially with their new access to and elusive application of "Special Technical Operations" ("STO"), which often involve the unique and sometimes unrepeatable use of a particular nation's "Technological Crown Jewels".

However, in the rather cynical, but thoroughly "progressivist," view of Michael Lee Lanning:

    "From huge, publicly owned firms to small independent companies [i.e., "military companies"], the corporate world has learned that war is indeed good business, and business is good and getting better."

Lanning makes a pertinent observation in this context of the evolution of an all-voluntary military into a mercenary force, especially in the matter of the financial bonuses currently given to both citizens and non-citizens, both men and women, who are now active members of the U.S. Armed Forces and serve "in units rotating in and out of Afghanistan and Iraq":

    "It would be unfair to the many brave men and women [who were, already in early 2002, 15% of the overall Army!], both citizen and noncitizen, who accept the [larger military] bonuses [for "volunteering to extend their tours" overseas] to question their patriotism or their commitment to their country. However, it would not be unfair to note that increased pay, citizenship [granted to non-citizens in the military, after a certain period of "service"], and other benefits in exchange for enlistment [or voluntary extensions of duty] are not all that different from the reasons [the motives, the incentives for which] soldiers of fortune have fought since the beginnings of time."

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It's post-apocalyptic rather than neo-feudal order , with mercenaries guarding the few remaining enclaves of civilisation ( for the rich ones of course ) . Just look at the plans of FEMA for clues ...
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