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http:// https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-foreign-legions-how-we-treat-our-proxies-defines-us-179277
America’s Foreign Legions: How We Treat Our Proxies Defines Us "The American way of war is not resolute sailors coursing across blue oceans, silk-scarved Mustang pilots spiraling through European skies, or artfully smudged GIs and Marines bloodlessly assaulting bunkers. Rather, the real and present history of American warfare is one of outsourcing; of volatile marriages of convenience between the United States and its partisans, partners, and proxies. "
America’s Foreign Legions: How We Treat Our Proxies Defines Us "The American way of war is not resolute sailors coursing across blue oceans, silk-scarved Mustang pilots spiraling through European skies, or artfully smudged GIs and Marines bloodlessly assaulting bunkers. Rather, the real and present history of American warfare is one of outsourcing; of volatile marriages of convenience between the United States and its partisans, partners, and proxies. "
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The Russians are using mercenaries, contractors, special forces, convectional forces in Ukraine.
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LTC Eric Udouj
I would say that we do similar in many places -- as do most regional powers now a days. Thin liine between mercs and contractors in defining what they are doing.
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