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let's brainstorm all the ways that letting Erik Prince's private army take over duties in Afghanistan are actually good 1) war games with business managing mechanics are an under-utilized genre mash, and are sure to get more popular 2) instead of getting blood money from the US government, the bereaved will have to sue 3) PR disaster from serial rape and child murder? not a problem for our brave servicemen anymore 4) more bang for the buck. markets are super efficient at delivering goods & services, and bringing a market based solution to warfare is innovative
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one of the most underrated games of the PS2/XBOX generation
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Aug 31, 2017 02:05
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thats not in galaxy brain format op
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Aug 31, 2017 02:05
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we didn't spec for that national tradition yet though
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Aug 31, 2017 02:06
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The best part is when a mercenary company fights your wars but your biggest military rival owns 40% of the stocks in that company that will in no way factor into their strategic decision making.
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Aug 31, 2017 02:07
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Calibanibal posted:thats not in galaxy brain format op tiny brain: use of mercenaries is an ethical violation so severe it should constitute a war crime active brain: using contractors to work logistical duties is efficient, and enables more troops to be combat fighters neural networked brain: private security organizations can cover duties that would normally distract from the more urgent needs of the military cosmic brain: thanks to plausible deniability, mercenaries are all reward, no risk
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Aug 31, 2017 02:11
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Pros: Nano machines inside their bodies will enhance and regulate their abilities cons; War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control... War becomes routine.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:09
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These Troops will do the filthiest things for pay. Nothing too hard, no hole too deep.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:56
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Free drinks for all Afganis!
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Aug 31, 2017 04:08
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more jobs for vets so they stop becoming cops
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I got this new Afgani coworker who says he used to work with the US-Afghan development agency or whatever. I can never remember the acronym for those guys. Anyway he told a story about going to Tajikstan for vacation and blowing 10,000 USD on three weeks of hookers, booze, and coke. Apparently bribe money goes pretty far up there.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:16
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Aug 31, 2017 04:19
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we're gonna find out how lovely their rebrandings can get
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Aug 31, 2017 04:21
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:tiny brain: use of mercenaries is an ethical violation so severe it should constitute a war crime holographic universe brain: a mercenary is unto themselves a nation, bound to a confederacy represented by contractor and alliance by its employer
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Aug 31, 2017 04:49
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why hire Blackwater when you could get the Kell Hounds
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Aug 31, 2017 04:54
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If the history of mercs is any lesson, they're going to be expensive, back-stabby, and going to fold when up against an actual army. Hiring mercs is like a symptom of a declining empire afaik.
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rudatron posted:If the history of mercs is any lesson, they're going to be expensive, back-stabby, and going to fold when up against an actual army. the taliban has been pretty good at kicking the rear end of our actual military so I honestly want to see how they'd fare against these dipshits
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Aug 31, 2017 05:31
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Al-Saqr posted:The best part is when a mercenary company fights your wars but your biggest military rival owns 40% of the stocks in that company that will in no way factor into their strategic decision making.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:57
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the bitcoin of weed posted:the taliban has been pretty good at kicking the rear end of our actual military so I honestly want to see how they'd fare against these dipshits It's less that the Taliban (such as they exist as an organization anymore) are good at kicking rear end and more that you can't win a war with no objectives. There'd probably have been way less human suffering if we had just straight up annexed Iraq and Afghanistan
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the bitcoin of weed posted:the taliban has been pretty good at kicking the rear end of our actual military so I honestly want to see how they'd fare against these dipshits but these guys will have profit motive
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Aug 31, 2017 06:12
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Larry Parrish posted:It's less that the Taliban (such as they exist as an organization anymore) are good at kicking rear end and more that you can't win a war with no objectives. There'd probably have been way less human suffering if we had just straight up annexed Iraq and Afghanistan nah, american soldiers are cowards and the rest of the world knows this
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the bitcoin of weed posted:the taliban has been pretty good at kicking the rear end of our actual military so I honestly want to see how they'd fare against these dipshits mercenaries didn't do so hot in Iraq either in fact, we launched two major military operations just to save face and cover for a Blackwater fuckup
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Aug 31, 2017 06:23
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Next Metal Gear game will be off the loving chain
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Aug 31, 2017 06:37
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Al! posted:nah, american soldiers are cowards and the rest of the world knows this
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Aug 31, 2017 06:45
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* ww2 soldier, shaking fist at sniper* coward! *full plate mail knight, shaking fist at mongol horse archers* coward! *nobility on horseback, shaking fist at peasant with a crossbow* coward! *guys with pointy sticks, shaking fist at guys with pointyer, longer sticks* coward!
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Aug 31, 2017 06:49
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Xand_Man posted:Next Metal Gear game will be off the loving chain Can't wait till Metal Gear 2075 after Konami goes bankrupt in 2050 and Acti-valve picks up the license.
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Larry Parrish posted:Can't wait till Metal Gear 2075 after Konami goes bankrupt in 2050 and Acti-valve picks up the license. It's just gonna be a rehash of the Peacewalker plot, only with a cool vintage 00's aesthetic set in Afghanistan.
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Aug 31, 2017 09:15
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pros: submarine with mt rushmore on it for some reason
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Aug 31, 2017 13:46
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- Wear sick bandanas and skull kerchiefs instead of boring army gear
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Aug 31, 2017 14:47
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Main Paineframe posted:mercenaries didn't do so hot in Iraq either
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Aug 31, 2017 14:48
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JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
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Aug 31, 2017 22:25
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Prince will hire whatever unstable madmen he can get to fill the ranks in Afghanistan and one of them might go berserk and murder him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at9hxU864Fg
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Zeroisanumber posted:Prince will hire whatever unstable madmen he can get to fill the ranks in Afghanistan and one of them might go berserk and murder him. inshallah
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:Pros: Nano machines inside their bodies will enhance and regulate their abilities
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Xand_Man posted:Next Metal Gear game will be off the loving chain 
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Love might blossom on the battlefield?
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They are nerfing the poo poo out of mercs in the next patch of EU4. Not a good idea to keep using them imho
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VectorSigma posted:more jobs for vets so they stop becoming cops hmm, actually I think this is a genuine "pro" of such contractor armies.
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