PMC. History and modernity. Woe defeated!

War is a drug. A severe drug, but doctors do not prescribe it by prescription. She kills, and when she is not, the person who is ill with her begins with a breakdown. And such people are spinning between a boring peaceful life and the war that gives this life to the taste. After all, every day spent in the war stands a few on a civilian, especially if you are fighting for PMCs! Few people know that PMCs exist as much as there are wars. From ancient times to the present day. This publication illuminates the history and evolution of hired armies. The military skill of private armies has been valued from time immemorial. The Greek warriors in the service of the ancient Persian monarchy, the harsh Varangians-Guards, who guarded the Byzantine emperors, medieval Italian condotkers who took and surrendered the cities, German landscapes of the Reformation era, put together in dashing detachments. The “soldiers of good luck” of the 20th century, who participated in the invisible war of the Supreme Power - the USA and the USSR, as well as the warriors of the latest time, united in private military companies - PMCs, in which there are now units of all branches of the troops. For centuries, interest in this profession does not fade away, and the ranks of PMCs around the world are regularly replenished. Why is this happening? In this book, the reader will find an answer to this and others, questions