{"id":199309,"date":"2007-08-14T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/the-problem-with-mercenaries\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T10:28:00","slug":"the-problem-with-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/the-problem-with-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/defence\/Intelligence_officers_quitting_British_defence_ministry30012903.php\">about one-fifth of British intelligence officers have quit over the past 3 years.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears that,  &#8220;many of the officers leaving were choosing well-paid private security jobs instead, forcing the ministry to hand jobs to people who do not have relevant training or experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well-paid private security jobs, i.e. Blackwater and the rest of their despicable ilk.<\/p>\n<p>The US and the UK have declined to sign the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UN_Mercenary_Convention\">1989 UN Mercenary Convention<\/a>, and this is just one, of many (will post on this later) problems with this position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that about one-fifth of British intelligence officers have quit over the past 3 years. It appears that, &#8220;many of the officers leaving were choosing well-paid private security jobs instead, forcing the ministry to hand jobs to people who do not have relevant training or experience.&#8221; Well-paid private security jobs, i.e. Blackwater and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1102,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-intelligence","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}